BRAHMAGUPTA: MATHEMATICIAN AND ASTRONOMER

Complete Name

Student Number

Where was Brahmagupta from?

• Rajasthan
• Baghdad
• Ujjain
• Tigris

Which work by Brahmagupta is often considered the earliest known text to treat zero as a number in its own right?

• Sulba Sutras
• Surya Siddhanta
• Brahmasphutasiddhanta
• Jiuzhang Suanshu

Who showed, almost 500 years later, that division by zero should result in infinity?

• Bhaskara I
• Bhaskara II
• Aryabhata
• Madhava of Sangamagrama

How did Brahmagupta refer to negative numbers?

• Assets
• Debt
• Properties
• Balance

What type of equations did Brahmagupta consider when discussing the possibility of two solutions, one of which could be negative?

• Quadratic equations
• Linear equations
• Cubic equations
• Diophantine equations

What did Brahmagupta use to represent unknowns in his equations?

• Initials of colors
• Symbols from the Greek alphabet
• Roman numerals
• Hieroglyphics

What is the value of √10 (rounded to six decimal places) established by Brahmagupta as a practical approximation for π?

• Option 1
• 3.162277
• 3.141592
• 3.141593

What is the name of the formula for the area of a cyclic quadrilateral given by Brahmagupta?

• Brahmagupta's Approximation
• Brahmagupta's Rule
• Brahmagupta's Formula
• Brahmagupta's Theorem