Brahmagupta's Formula/Also known as
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Brahmagupta's Formula: Also known as
Some sources refer to Brahmagupta's Formula as the Archimedes-Heron-Brahmagupta Formula, for Archimedes of Syracuse and Heron of Alexandria as well as Brahmagupta.
The Heron of Alexandria connection comes from the application of this to the triangle to obtain Heron's Formula.
The reference to Archimedes of Syracuse comes from the possibility that (despite Heron being the one to publish) he may have been the one to first come up with Heron's Formula.
Sources
- 1992: John Hadley/2 and David Singmaster: Problems to Sharpen the Young (Math. Gazette Vol. 76, no. 475: pp. 102 – 126) www.jstor.org/stable/3620384