p`tə), c.598–c.660, Indian mathematician and astronomer. He wrote in verse the Brahma-sphuta-siddhanta [improved system of Brahma], a standard work on astronomy containing two chapters on mathematics that were translated into English by H. T. Colebrooke in Algebra … from the Sanskrit of Brahmagupta (1817). A shorter treatise, The Khandakhadyaka (tr. 1934), expounded the astronomical system of Aryabhata Aryabhata , c.476–550, Hindu mathematician and astronomer. He is one of the first known to have used algebra; his writings include rules of arithmetic and of plane and spherical trigonometry, and solutions of quadratic equations...... Click the link for more information. .
Brahmagupta
(born 598—died c. 665, possibly Bhillamala, Rajasthan, India) Indian mathematician and astronomer. His principal work, the Brahma-sphuta-siddhanta (“The Opening of the Universe”), most of which deals with planetary motion, also contains important proofs of various geometrical theorems on quadratic equations, the geometry of right triangles, and the properties of geometric solids.
Brahmagupta
Born circa 598; died 660. Indian mathematician and astronomer.
Brahmagupta’s work Revision of the System of Brahma (628), a significant part of which is devoted to arithmetic and algebra, has come down to us. His studies of arithmetic progression (the well-known law of its summation) and the solution of quadratic equations that have a real solution are expounded in it.
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