Math Smartasses

Bhaskara (Baskhara?) was a fukken smartass
oh sure, get his formula for resolving quadratic functions, that's just a smartass job

I did it yesterday pretty simply it too
and how come the formula gets his name?

I mean

have a ax² + bx + c = 0 formula and you wish to know the roots, this is how he did it:
ax² + bx = -c (*4a)
4a²x² + 4abx = -4ac (+b²)
4a²x² + 4abx + b² = b² - 4ac (factorising the left side)
(2ax + b)² = b² - 4ac
2ax + b = +- sqrt(b² - 4ac)
2ax = -b +- sqrt(b² - 4ac)
x = (-b +- sqrt(b² - 4ac))/2a

now seriously, is it really that difficult?
was he in college when he did this?
did he get a phd for it?

fuck math smartasses
I'm better than them.

"However, there is no formula for general quintic equations over the rationals in terms of radicals; this is known as the Abel–Ruffini theorem, first published in 1824, which was one of the first applications of group theory in algebra. This result also holds for equations of higher degrees."

wikipedia