Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.57

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Here we have precisely the method of the Hindu algebraists, who have not failed, likewise, to make the last cited observation. See *Brahm. Algebra*, section 1 and *Bhasc. Lil.* Ch.12. *Vij.* Ch.2. It is so prominent in the Indian Algebra as to give name to the oldest treatise on it extant; and to constitute a distinct head in the enumeration of the different branches of mathematical knowledge in a passage cited from a still more ancient author. See *Lil.* § 248.