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Phase 1-You are going to research the main contributors of the quadratic formula, choose 2 of the seven people or groups on the following page to tell me something about them. You need to write two paragraphs with five sentences or more per paragraph. 1. what century were they alive, 2. where did they go to school 4. what math has been attributed to that person or group, 5. who was this person trained by 6. what famous mathematicians were descendants of this group. Be sure to cite where the information came from, use you own words do not copy and paste. Post all information on your wikispace. List:Babylonians,Brahmagupta,Mohammad bin Musa AL-kwarismi ,Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi,Henry Heaton,Yang Hui,Liu Yi

Yang Hui lived in the 13th century he was born around 1238 in Qiantang (now Hangzhou), chekiang province, China.
 ative in the great flowering of Chinese mathematics during the southern song dynasty.

Yang Hui was a Chinese mathematician who wrote several outstanding mathematical texts. These contained solutions of quadratic equations as well as Pascal's triangle and magic squares.
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