Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.67
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.67
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c13.67
The Hindus in the fifth century, perhaps earlier,101 were in possession of Algebra extending to the general solution of both determinate and indeterminate problems of the 1st and 2nd degrees: and subsequently advanced to the special solution of biquadratics wanting the second term; and of cubics in very restricted and easy cases.