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

DOI10.1016/J.HM.2015.01.001zbMATH Open1326.01020OpenAlexW2019952262MaRDI QIDQ492786FDOQ492786

Authors: Roi 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

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zbMATH Keywords

cubic equationsIndian mathematicsKerala schoolRenaissance algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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