Algebra: With Arithmetic and Mensuration

by Brahmagupta

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484 pages, Paperback

Published October 27, 2022

About the author

Brahmagupta (c. 598 – c. 668 CE) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer.
He is the author of two early works on mathematics and astronomy: the Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta (BSS, "correctly established doctrine of Brahma", dated 628), a theoretical treatise, and the Khaṇḍakhādyaka ("edible bite", dated 665), a more practical text.

Brahmagupta was the first to give rules to compute with zero. The texts composed by Brahmagupta were in elliptic verse[clarification needed] in Sanskrit, as was common practice in Indian mathematics. As no proofs are given, it is not known how Brahmagupta's results were derived