Kumar Dutta, Amartya.
(2014)
Bı-jagan. ita of bha-skara-ca-rya.
At Right Angles, 3 (3).
pp. 9-12.
Abstract
The above sentence occurs in the book “Number Theory: An approach through history” (p 81–82) by André Weil (1906–98), one of the giants of 20th century mathematics.
The mathematician Pierre de Fermat (1601–65) is regarded as the father of modern number theory. The “problem” referred to by Weil has a grand history. It was posed by Fermat in 1657 as part of his efforts to kindle the interest of contemporary mathematicians in the
abstract science of numbers. The problem was to
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