Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The main work of Brahmagupta, Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta ("Correctly Established Doctrine of Brahma"), written c. 628, contains ideas including a good understanding of the mathematical role of zero, rules for manipulating both negative and positive numbers, a method for computing square roots, methods of solving linear and quadratic equations, and rules for summing series, Brahmagupta's identity, and the Brahmagupta’s theorem. The book was written completely in verse rather than using mathematical symbols. Nevertheless, it contained the first clear description of the quadratic formula (which is the solution of the quadratic equation).. }
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- Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta abstract "The main work of Brahmagupta, Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta ("Correctly Established Doctrine of Brahma"), written c. 628, contains ideas including a good understanding of the mathematical role of zero, rules for manipulating both negative and positive numbers, a method for computing square roots, methods of solving linear and quadratic equations, and rules for summing series, Brahmagupta's identity, and the Brahmagupta’s theorem. The book was written completely in verse rather than using mathematical symbols. Nevertheless, it contained the first clear description of the quadratic formula (which is the solution of the quadratic equation).".