Mathematics in Ancient and Medieval India c7.15

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c7.15

The word *yāva* having the idea ‘to mix’ or ‘to separate’ has some affinity with that of *aljabr*. The process on the operations (*al-Jabr*) and equations (*al-Muqābala*) has been used by al-Khwārizmī (c. 825 A. D.) in his work *Ḥiṣāb al-Jabr w'al Muqābalah* like,

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