丢番图是古希腊的大数学家,他的13卷巨著《算术》在代数符号、数论、代数方程解法等方面均有重要贡献,其不定方程理论对后世产生了巨大影响,以至后人把整系数不定方程称为“丢番图方程”。在希腊梅特罗多尔编的一本习题集里,以诗的形式记载有关于希腊数学家丢番图的年龄问题, Diophantine is a great mathematician in ancient Greece. His 13 volumes of “Arithmetical Theory” make important contributions to algebraic signs, number theory and solution of algebraic equations. The theory of indefinite equation has great influence on later generations, The whole coefficient indefinite equation is called “Diophantine equation ”. In a set of exercises compiled by Theodor Mellot, Greece, the age of the Greek mathematician Diophantus was recorded in the form of poetry,