Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c8.6

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c8.6

It was thus not a "primitive" algebra that the Hindus developed. The achievements of Indian algebra from the fifth to twelfth century A.D. have in some cases anticipated the discoveries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe. Modern algebraists have thus only re-discovered the already known truths.

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