Brahmagupta
Indian mathematician and astronomer, 598-668
Brahmagupta (
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Brahmagupta was the first to give rules to compute with zero. The texts composed by Brahmagupta were composed in elliptical verse in Sanskrit, as was common practice in Indian mathematics. As no proofs are given, it is not known how Brahmagupta's results were derived.[1]
References
change- ↑ "Brahmagupta biography". Archived from the original on 2013-09-15. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
Other websites
change- Brahmagupta's Brahma-sphuta-siddhanta edited by Ram Swarup Sharma, Indian Institute of Astronomical and Sanskrit Research, 1966. English introduction, Sanskrit text, Sanskrit and Hindi commentaries (PDF)
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