The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c19.s1.11
The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c19.s1.11
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c19.s1.11
It should be noted that the above principle for obtaining the rational right triangles having a given leg has been followed expressly in later times in India by Mahāvīra (850) and in Europe by Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa (1202) and Vieta (*c.* 1580).