Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-200) and index.
Preface --1.Arithmetic and the beginnings of algebra --2.Alexandria ad Aegyptum --3.Diophantos and the Arithmetika --4.Sleeping beauty in the Dark Ages --5.New vistas --6.Humanism --7.Renaissance or the rebirth of Diophantos --8.Fair stood the wind for France. --9.Coda: Hilbert's tenth problem --10.Stemma.