Finding integer solutions, or sometimes rational solutions, to algebraic equations with integer coefficients is called solving indeterminate or Diophantine equations. Diophantus, whose name is remembered here, was a Greek algebraist from around the 3rd century. His book "Arithmetik" includes research on indeterminate equations, but one of its distinctive features is that it deals only with rational solutions. For example, ax+by=c (a, b, c are integers) (1) Fermat is considered the founder of modern number theory, and it is said that he realized from a description of Pythagorean triples in Diophantus's Arithmetic that (2) has no natural number solution when n ≥ 3. In recent years, Alan Baker (1939- ) has brought about a revolution in indeterminate equations. For example, if f(x,y) is an irreducible homogeneous polynomial of degree 3 or higher and m is an integer other than 0, then the indeterminate equation f(x,y)=m [Tsuneo Adachi] [References] | |Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend |
整係数の代数方程式の整数解、ときには有理数解を求めることを、不定方程式またはディオファントス方程式を解くという。ここに名を残しているディオファントスは3世紀ごろのギリシアの代数学者である。彼の著書『算数論』には不定方程式の研究は含まれているが、すべて有理数解を扱っているのが一つの特徴である。 たとえば 近代整数論の始祖とされるのはフェルマーであるが、フェルマーは、ディオファントスの『算数論』中のピタゴラス数に関する記述から、(2)がn≧3のとき自然数解をもたないことに気づいたといわれている。 近年、ベーカーAlan Baker(1939― )によって不定方程式に一つの変革がもたらされた。たとえばf(x,y)を既約な三次以上の同次多項式とし、mを0でない整数とすると、不定方程式 [足立恒雄] [参照項目] | |出典 小学館 日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)について 情報 | 凡例 |
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