Brahmagupta's problem
Appearance
This problem was given in India by the mathematician Brahmagupta in 628 AD in his treatise Brahma Sputa Siddhanta:
solve the Pell's equation
for integers .
Brahmagupta gave the smallest solution as
- .
See also
- Brahmagupta
- Indian mathematics
- List of Indian mathematicians
- Pell's equation
- Indeterminate equation
- Diophantine equation