Bhascara Acharya

Bija Ganita; Or, the Algebra of the Hindus

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An important twelfth-century treatise on algebra by medieval India's greatest mathematician, first published in English translation in 1813.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 264g
• ISBN-13: 9781108056014
• ISBN-10: 1108056016
• Artikelnr.: 37464038

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. On affirmative and negative
2. On the cipher
3. On unknown quantities
4. On surds
5. On indeterminate problems of the first degree
6. On indeterminate problems of the second degree
Book 1. On simple equations
Book 2. On quadratic equations
Book 3. On equations involving indeterminate questions of the first degree
Book 4. On equations involving indeterminate questions of the second degree
Book 5. On equations involving rectangles
Mr Davis's notes.