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I don’t know if it’s related to Western-centrism or not, but I recall thinking it was weird that my English-speaking colleagues do not know the formula to solve

by dkga 10mo ago

I don’t know if it’s related to Western-centrism or not, but I recall thinking it was weird that my English-speaking colleagues do not know the formula to solve second-degree polynomials as the “Bhaskara formula”, as we call it in Brazil. By the way, Wolfram’s website has an interesting summary of the history of this formula.[0] [0]: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/QuadraticEquation.html https://mathworld.wolfram.com/QuadraticEquation.html

srean 10mo ago
Interesting that it is called Bhaskara formula. In India and also in general it's called Sridharacharya formula or method. It's named after the Indian algebraist Sridhar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sridhara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sridhara whom Bhaskara quotes extensively.