Английская Википедия:Bijaganita

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Шаблон:Italic title Bijaganita (IAST: Шаблон:IAST) was treatise on algebra by the Indian mathematician Bhāskara II. It is the second volume of his main work Siddhānta Shiromani ("Crown of treatises")Шаблон:Sfn alongside Lilāvati, Grahaganita and Golādhyāya.Шаблон:Sfn[1]

Meaning

Bijaganita, which literally translates to "mathematics (Шаблон:Lang) using seeds (Шаблон:Lang)", is one of the two main branches of mediaeval Indian mathematics, the other being Шаблон:Lang, or "mathematics using algorithms. It derives its name from the fact that it employs algebraic equations (Шаблон:Lang) that are compared to plant seeds (Шаблон:Lang) due to their capacity to generate solutions to mathematical problems."[2]

Contents

The book is divided into six parts, mainly indeterminate equations, quadratic equations, simple equations, surds. The contents are:

  • Introduction
  • On Simple Equations
  • On Quadratic Equations
  • On Equations involving indeterminate Questions of the 1st Degree
  • On Equations involving indeterminate Questions of the 2nd Degree
  • On Equations involving Rectangles

In Bijaganita Bhāskara II refined Jayadeva's way of generalization of Brahmagupta's approach to solving indeterminate quadratic equations, including Pell's equation which is known as chakravala method or cyclic method. Bijaganita is the first text to recognize that a positive number has two square roots

Translations

The translations or editions of the Bijaganita into English include:

Two notable Scholars from Varanasi Sudhakar Dwivedi and Bapudeva Sastri studied Bijaganita in the nineteenth century.

See also

References

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Bibliography

External links

Шаблон:Indian mathematics