Indian Mathematics c7.4

c7.4

Bhāskara is the most renowned of this school, probably undeservedly so, for Brahmagupta's work is possibly sounder mathematically and is of much more importance historically. Generally these writers treat of the same topics—with a difference—and Brahmagupta's work appears to have been used by all the others. Bhāskara mentions another mathematician, Padmanābha, but omits from his list Mahāvīra.