狄方廷

DíFāngtíng

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Meanings

1 Diophantine (transliteration of the Greek name Diophantus)
2 occasionally used in subtitles for Western surnames containing 'Difontaine/Defontaine'

Characters

(surname; ancient northern tribe)

square; direction

Examples

狄方廷方程是数论中的重要课题。

Dí Fāngtíng fāngchéng shì shùlùn zhōng de zhòngyào kètí.

Diophantine equations are an important topic in number theory.

他研究了多年的狄方廷问题。

Tā yánjiūle duō nián de Dí Fāngtíng wèntí.

He has studied Diophantine problems for many years.

Tips

usage

A rare transliteration. Most often a learner sees 狄方廷 as the Chinese rendering of Diophantus / 'Diophantine' (狄方廷方程 = Diophantine equation), referring to the 3rd-century Greek mathematician Diophantus of Alexandria. Modern math texts more often write 丢番图 (Diūfāntú).

Stroke Order

狄 dí

方 fāng

廷 tíng