Algebra in Ancient and Modern Times

DOI10.1090/MAWRLD/012zbMATH Open0917.01002OpenAlexW4299323065MaRDI QIDQ4396495FDOQ4396495

Authors: V. S. Varadarajan 

Publication date: 16 June 1998

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/mawrld/012

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zbMATH Keywords

complex numberscubic equationPell's equationapproximation of irrational numbersbiquadratic equationPythagorean triplets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematics in general (00A05) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of mathematics in the Golden Age of Islam (01A30) History of number theory (11-03) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to history and biography (01-01) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40) History of Indian mathematics (01A32) History of field theory (12-03) History of East and Southeast Asian mathematics (non-Chinese, non-Japanese) (01A29)

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