COMPOSED BY THE ILLUSTRIOUS BRAHMAGUPTA Brahmagupta (c. 598–668 CE) was a premier Indian mathematician and astronomer whose work profoundly influenced both Islamic and European science.

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OF BRAHMA original: "Brāhma-sphuṭa Siddhānta"; this is Brahmagupta's magnum opus, written in 628 CE. It is famous for being one of the first texts to treat zero as a number and provide rules for arithmetic with negative numbers.

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