- ...cubic
- Negative numbers were not considered ``proper" numbers,
hence there were as many types of equations as there were ways of equating
quantities on each of the sides of the equation.
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- ...roots
- The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra was conjectured to be true
well before Gauss proved it in 1798.
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