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¹ The only other candidate is Gauss's 1801 Disquisitiones arithmeticae, of which an English translation by Arthur A Clarke, S J, was published by Yale in 1966 and reprinted by Springer in 1986.

² Cauchy, Augustin-Louis, Cours d'analyse de l'école royale polytechnique. 1re partie: analyse algébrique [all published] (Paris, 1821).

³ In Oeuvres complètes d'Augustin Cauchy, Series 2, Vol. 3 (Paris, 1897).

⁴ Page 228, line 9. Negative line numbers are counted from the bottom of the page.

⁵ See Vol. IV, p. 120 of Rashed's edition of Qus ⃛ā's translation, Diophante: Les Arithmétiques, 1984.

⁶ Marouane ben Miled, ‘Les commentaires d’al-Māhānī et d’un anonyme du livre X des Éléments d’Euclide’, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 9 (1999), 89–156.

⁷ One example: ‘At no time does Diophantus complete the square; instead in his work the emphasis is on the type of substitution he uses.’ (p. 64)