"‘[…] the chakravala method anticipated the European methods by more than a thousand years. But, as we have seen, no European performances in the whole field of algebra at a time much later than Bhaskara’s, nay nearly up to our times, equalled the marvellous complexity and ingenuity of chakravala.’"
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Selenius, C. O. ‘Rationale of the Chakravala process of Jayadeva and Bhaskara II’. Historia Mathematica 2 (1975): pp. 167-184.
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