Citrabhānu's twenty-one algebraic problems in Malayalam and Sanskrit

DOI10.1016/j.hm.2015.01.001zbMath1326.01020OpenAlexW2019952262MaRDI QIDQ492786

Roy Wagner

Publication date: 21 August 2015

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2015.01.001

zbMATH Keywords

cubic equationsIndian mathematicsKerala schoolRenaissance algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polynomials in real and complex fields: location of zeros (algebraic theorems) (12D10) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40) History of Indian mathematics (01A32)

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• The natures of numbers in and around Bombelli's \textit{L'algebra}
• Tantrasaṅgraha of Nīlakaṇṭha Somayājī. Transl. from the Sanskrit
• Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī on the number of positive roots of cubic equations
• Twenty-one algebraic normal forms of Citrabhānu
• An example of the secant method of iterative approximation in a fifteenth-century Sanskrit text
• Niccolò Tartaglia's poetic solution to the cubic equation
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