Brahmagupta ( listen   ( help · info ) ) (born c.  598 CE , died c.  668 CE ) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer . He was the author of two early works on mathematics and astronomy : the Br?hmasphu?asiddh?nta (BSS, "correctly established doctrine of Brahma ", dated 628).

Brahmagupta was the first to give rules to compute with zero . The texts composed by Brahmagupta were composed in elliptical verse in Sanskrit , as was common practice in Indian mathematics . As no proofs are given, it is not known how Brahmagupta's results were derived. ^[1]

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• Brahmagupta's Brahma-sphuta-siddhanta edited by Ram Swarup Sharma, Indian Institute of Astronomical and Sanskrit Research, 1966. English introduction, Sanskrit text, Sanskrit and Hindi commentaries (PDF)

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