Diophantus was a Greek mathe...
[4527] Diophantus was a Greek mathe... - Diophantus was a Greek mathematician who lived in the third century. He was one of the first mathematicians to use algebraic symbols. Most of what is known about Diophantus's life comes from an algebraic riddle from around the early sixth century. The riddle states: Diophantus's youth lasted one sixth of his life. He grew a beard after one twelfth more. After one seventh more of his life, he married. 5 years later, he and his wife had a son. The son lived exactly one half as long as his father, and Diophantus died four years after his son. How many years did Diophantus live? - #brainteasers #math #riddles - Correct Answers: 38 - The first user who solved this task is Fazil Hashim
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Diophantus was a Greek mathe...

Diophantus was a Greek mathematician who lived in the third century. He was one of the first mathematicians to use algebraic symbols. Most of what is known about Diophantus's life comes from an algebraic riddle from around the early sixth century. The riddle states: Diophantus's youth lasted one sixth of his life. He grew a beard after one twelfth more. After one seventh more of his life, he married. 5 years later, he and his wife had a son. The son lived exactly one half as long as his father, and Diophantus died four years after his son. How many years did Diophantus live?
Correct answers: 38
The first user who solved this task is Fazil Hashim.
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A guy walking down a street one afternoon passes an old man sitting on the side of the road with a large sack.
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Died 30 Jan 1908 at age 75 (born 26 May 1832).Scottish comparative anatomist who made anatomical, physical, and physiological researches, especially on the flight of insects, birds and bats. He began in 1861 as a house surgeon Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, and a year later contributed dissections to the collection as assistant in the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. By 1867, he became interested in the mechanical aspects of animal flight, and spent two years in Ireland in its study. In 1870, He published an article on the physiology of wings. Also experimenting on artificial flight, he wrote Animal Locomotion, or, Walking, Swimming, and Flying with a Dissertation on aeronautics (1873). For the last ten years of his life, he produced his magnum opus, the three-volume, Design in Nature (1908), published shortly after his death in 1908.«
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