Ancient Indians also developed algebra. Interestingly, the knowledge of algebra in ancient India was expressed in the form of poetry. We might as well appreciate two poems from the Gupta era: a group of bees have 1/5 stopped on one flower, and 1/3 stopped on another flower. Three times the difference between the two numbers flew to the third flower, and the remaining one flew in the air. How many bees are there, beautiful lady?

8 pieces of jade, 10 piece of jade, 100 pearls, all embedded in your earrings. My love, when I bought these jewels for you, the value was equal, and the sum of the three kinds of jewels was half a hundred minus three. Tell me the price of everything, lucky lady.

In geometry, the standard classic is one of the important masterpieces. The guidelines record the drawing methods of squares and rectangles, squares and circles, squares, rectangles and triangles with equal areas. List the formula for calculating the diagonal of a square, that is, 1/3 of the side length, add 1/4 of this 1/3, and subtract 1/34 of this 1/4 to get the value of /2. The calculation of this formula is quite accurate, and the deviation from that of modern mathematicians is only six digits after the decimal point. The classic criterion points out that when calculating the area of a circle, divide the diameter of the circle into eight equal parts, then divide the eight equal parts of 1 into 29 equal parts, omit the 28 equal parts, subtract the 29 equal parts of 1/6, and then subtract the 1/6 of 1/8, and the calculated circle can be obtained.

An important theorem in geometry-Pythagorean theorem was also calculated by Indians a long time ago.