Comment by dkga
2 days ago
I don’t know if it’s related to Western-centrism or not, but I recall thinking it was weird that my English-speaking colleagues do not know the formula to solve second-degree polynomials as the “Bhaskara formula”, as we call it in Brazil.
By the way, Wolfram’s website has an interesting summary of the history of this formula.[0]
Interesting that it is called Bhaskara formula.
In India and also in general it's called Sridharacharya formula or method. It's named after the Indian algebraist Sridhar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sridhara
whom Bhaskara quotes extensively.