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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 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





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

whom Bhaskara quotes extensively.




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