Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c8.7

c8.7

The Hindu algebra of this period was the principal feeder of Saracen algebra through Yakub and Musa, and indirectly influenced to a certain extent mediæval European mathematics. It may have fostered the development of mathematics in China also, and through that, of Japan. According to Williams, the Hindu processes in algebra were known to the mathematicians of the Chinese empire, "and are still studied" in the Middle Kingdom "though all intellectual intercourse between the two countries has long ceased."