Indeterminate Equations of the First Degree

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Āryabhaṭa I (476) [1]was the earliest Hindu Algebraist worked on the Indeterminate Equations of the First Degree. He provided a method for solving the simple indeterminate equation

where a, b and c are integers.He also provided how to extend this to solve Simultaneous Indeterminate Equations of the first degree.

Bhāskara I (522)

  1. Datta, Bibhutibhusan; Narayan Singh, Avadhesh (1962). History of Hindu Mathematics. Mumbai: Asia Publishing House.