E466 -- Problema Diophanteum singulare
(A singular Diophantine problem)
Summary:
Euler seems to want xy ± xz and xy ± yz both to be squares.
According to the records, it was presented to the St. Petersburg Academy on March 21, 1774.
Publication:
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Originally published in Novi Commentarii academiae scientiarum Petropolitanae 19, 1775, pp. 112-131
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Opera Omnia: Series 1, Volume 3, pp. 338 - 358
- Reprinted in Commentat. arithm. 2, 1849, pp. 53-63 [E466a]
Documents Available:
- Original publication: E466
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