"Florian Cajori, the noted historian, summed up the matter in an extraordinarily suggestive manner: The perversity of fate has willed it that the equation y2 = nx2 + 1 should now be called Pell’s Problem, while in recognition of Brahmin scholarship it ought to be called the “Hindu Problem.” It is a problem that has exercised the highest faculties of some of our greatest modern analysts. Indian mathematical historians would like to call it the Brahmagupta–Bhaskara problem, keeping in mind that Bhaskar perfected Brahmagupta’s method of solution in the twelfth century; Bhaskara used “Chakravala”, or a cyclic process, to improve Brahmagupta’s method by doing away with the necessity of finding a trial solution."
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