ASCLEPIADES Posted October 5, 2007 Report Share Posted October 5, 2007 (edited) Salve, Amici. The following paragraph was an epitaph over the tombstone of an Alexandrian responsible for outstanding contributions to classical mathematics. For a long time, it was almost all of what was known about this genius. In its original language (Greek), it is a poem. In fact, it's also an equation: "God vouchsafed that he should be a boy for the sixth part of his life; when a twelfth was added, his cheeks acquired a beard; He kindled for him the light of marriage after a seventh, and in the fifth year after his marriage He granted him a son. Alas! late-begotten and miserable child, when he had reached the measure of half his father's life, the chill grave took him. After consoling his grief by this science of numbers for four years, he reached the end of his life." Can you solve it? Edited October 5, 2007 by ASCLEPIADES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nephele Posted October 5, 2007 Report Share Posted October 5, 2007 Can you solve it? No, but I can Google it. -- Nephele Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted October 5, 2007 Report Share Posted October 5, 2007 Not with my grasp on math. He's dead and buried; that's all that counts in the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julius Ratus Posted October 5, 2007 Report Share Posted October 5, 2007 Hell if I know, but God gives us three score and ten, any more is tribulation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docoflove1974 Posted October 5, 2007 Report Share Posted October 5, 2007 Can you solve it? No, but I can Google it. -- Nephele Cheater Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASCLEPIADES Posted October 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2007 Can you solve it? No, but I can Google it. -- Nephele Cleaver as always, Lady N. Can you make an anagram of his name, please? Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nephele Posted October 6, 2007 Report Share Posted October 6, 2007 Can you make an anagram of his name, please? Thanks in advance. It took awhile, but I've come up with his hidden, dark identity. I'll leave you to interpret the anagram name -- which shouldn't be any more difficult than trying to figure out who the 666 reference was in the Book of Revelations... Diophantus Alexandrinus = Putin Shadaux Dans-le-noir -- Nephele Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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