George Rusby Kaye, Indian Mathematics — Foreign influence… (1915)
“ History presents him in no other light than a mathematician of a country most distant from Greece and contiguous to India......Not having taken algebra from the Greeks, he must either have invented it himself or taken it from the Indians.' As a matter of fact his algebra shows, as pointed out by Rodet, no sign of Indian influence and is practically wholly based upon Greek knowledge ”
George Rusby Kaye, Indian Mathematics — Foreign influence… (1915)
“ Mūsā el-Chowārezmi (A.D. 782) is the earliest Arabic writer on mathematics of note and his best known work is the Algebra. The early orientalists appear to have been somewhat prejudiced against Arabic scholarship for, apparently without examination, they ascribed an Indian origin to M. b. Mūsā's work. The argument used was as follows: "There is nothing in history," wrote Cossali, and Colebrooke repeated it, 'respecting Muhammad ben Mūsā individually, which favours the opinion that he took from the Greeks, the algebra which he taught to the Muhammadans. ”
George Rusby Kaye, Indian Mathematics — Foreign influence… (1915)
“ The arithmetic of Chang-Ch'iu-chien written in the 6th century contains a great deal of matter that may have been the basis of the later Indian works. Indeed the later Indian works seem to bear a much closer resemblance to Chang's arithmetic than they do to any earlier Indian work.The problem of "the hundred hens" is of considerable interest. Chang gives the following example: "A cock costs 5 pieces of money, a hen 3 pieces and 3 chickens 1 piece. ”
