Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.44
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.44
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c13.44
The Hindu Algebra, not requiring the terms of the equation to be all exhibited in the form of positive quantity, does not direct the preliminary step of restoring negative quantity to the affirmative state: but proceeds at once to the operation of equal subtraction (samasodhana) for the difference of like terms which is the process denominated by the Arabian Algebraists comparison (mukabalah). On that point, therefore, the Arabian Algebra has more affinity to the Grecian than to the Indian analysis.