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With the coming of the Jesuits in the 16th century, and the consequent introduction of Western science, China lost interest in her native algebra...

— David Eugene Smith History of Mathematics (1925)

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He used capital vowels for the unknown quantities and capital consonants for the known, thus being able to express several unknowns and several knowns.

History of Mathematics (1925)

He... gave thirteen forms of the cubic which have positive roots, these having already been given by Omar Kayyam.

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He states that the root of x^3 + 6x = 20 isx = \sqrt[3]{\sqrt{108} + 10} - \sqrt[3]{\sqrt{108} - 10}.

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The excellent work of Tropfke is an example of the tendency to break away from the mere chronological recital of facts.

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The Arabs contributed nothing new to the theory, but al-Khowârizmî (c. 825) states the usual rules, and the same is true of his successors.

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