Brahmagupta's problem
This problem was given in India by the mathematician Brahmagupta in 628 AD in his treatise Brahma Sputa Siddhanta:
solve the Pell equation
Brahmagupta gave the smallest solution as
See also
- Brahmagupta
- Indian mathematics
- List of Indian mathematicians
- Pell's equation
- Indeterminate equation
- Diophantine equation
External links
Weisstein, Eric Wolfgang. "Brahmagupta's Problem". MathWorld.
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