# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-02T00:25:40.835Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Brahmagupta lived and worked in India during the early 7th century, producing two major texts that reshaped mathematics and astronomy. In 628 he completed the Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta, a theoretical treatise that laid out the first clear description of the quadratic formula and established rules for operating with zero—treating it as a number in its own right, not merely a mark of absence. He was also the first Indian scholar to describe gravity as an attractive force, using the Sanskrit term "gurutvākarṣaṇam." Thirty-seven years later, in 665, he published the Khandakhadyaka, a more practical manual. The formalizations held, and the zero traveled.