Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.58
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.58
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c13.58
Confining the comparison of Hindu and modern Algebras to conspicuous instances, the next for notice is that of the solution of indeterminate problems of the 2nd degree: for which a general method is given by Brahmegupta, besides rules for subordinate cases: and two general methods (one of them the same with Brahmegupta's) besides special cases subservient to the universal solution of problems of this nature; and, to obtain whole numbers in all circumstances, a combination of the method for problems of the first degree with that for those of the second, employing them alternately, or, as the Hindu algebraist terms it, proceeding in a circle.