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Al-Khwarizmi's algebra is regarded as the foundation and cornerstone of the sciences. In a sense, al-Khwarizmi is more entitled to be called "the father of algebra" than Diophantus because al-Khwarizmi is the first to teach algebra in an elementary form and for its own sake, Diophantus is primarily concerned with the theory of numbers. [52]
Al-Khwarizmi may have been a nephew of al-Tabari, the prominent Persian historian. [1] For a time, al-Khwarizmi worked as a clerk in the Samanid court at Bukhara in Transoxania , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] where he acquired his nickname, “al- Katib ’’ which literally means “the secretary” or “the scribe”.
Muhammad al-Idrisi (1099–1169)—Arab geographer who worked under Roger II of Sicily and contributed to the Map of the World; Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (d. 850)—Persian polymath head of the House of Wisdom, founder of Algebra, the word "algorithm" was named after him.
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, a Persian scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad was the founder of algebra, is along with the Greek mathematician Diophantus, known as the father of algebra. In his book The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing , Al-Khwarizmi deals with ways to solve for the positive roots of first and ...
The Khwarazmian Empire [note 2] (English: / k w ə ˈ r æ z m i ən /), [10] or simply Khwarazm, [note 3] was a culturally Persianate, Sunni Muslim empire of Turkic mamluk origin. [11] [12] Khwarazmians ruled large parts of present-day Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran from 1077 to 1231; first as vassals of the Seljuk Empire [13] and the Qara Khitai (Western Liao dynasty), [14] and from ...
Ibrahim al-Fazari (d. 777) Muhammad al-Fazari (d. 796 or 806) Al-Khwarizmi (d. 850) Sanad ibn Ali (d. 864) Al-Marwazi (d. 869) Al-Farghani (d. 870) Al-Mahani (d. 880) Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (d. 886) Dīnawarī (d. 896) Banū Mūsā (d. 9th century) Abu Sa'id Gorgani (d. 9th century) Ahmad Nahavandi (d. 9th century) Al-Nayrizi (d. 922) Al-Battani ...
Al-Jabr (Arabic: الجبر), also known as The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing (Arabic: الكتاب المختصر في حساب الجبر والمقابلة, al-Kitāb al-Mukhtaṣar fī Ḥisāb al-Jabr wal-Muqābalah; [b] or Latin: Liber Algebræ et Almucabola), is an Arabic mathematical treatise on algebra written in Baghdad around 820 by the Persian polymath ...
Most medieval Muslim geographers continued to use al-Khwarizmi's prime meridian. [4]: 188 Other prime meridians used were set by Abū Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdānī and Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi at Ujjain, a centre of Indian astronomy, and by another anonymous writer at Basra. [4]: 189