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Solomon Gandz has described Al-Khwarizmi as the father of Algebra: 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 ...
Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. al-ʿAbbās al-Khwarizmi (934 – Nishapur, 1002) was a poet and writer in the Arabic language.He gained patronage variously in the courts of Aleppo (with Sayf al-Dawla), Bukhara (with vizier Abu Ali Bal'ami ), Nishapur (praising its emir, Ahmad al-Mikali), Sijistan (under Tahir ibn Muhammad), Gharchistan, and Arrajan (with Sahib ibn Abbad).
Al-Khwarazmi is a somewhat obscure figure. [2] He was born in 935 in Khwarazm, the birthplace of his father.His mother was a native of Amol in Tabaristan. [1] He periodically refers to himself as al-Khwarazmi or al-Tabari, while other sources refer to him as al-Tabarkhazmi or al-Tabarkhazi. [1]
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Atsiz ibn Uwaq al-Khwarizmi, also known as al-Aqsis, Atsiz ibn Uvaq, Atsiz ibn Oq and Atsiz ibn Abaq (died October 1079), was a Turkoman mercenary commander who established a principality in Palestine and southern Syria after seizing these from the Fatimid Caliphate in 1071.
Al-Majrīṭī took part in the translation of Ptolemy's Planisphaerium, improved existing translations of the Almagest, introduced and improved the astronomical tables of Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, aided historians by working out tables to convert Persian dates to Hijri years, and introduced the techniques of surveying and triangulation.
Abū Bakr, ‘Abd al-Qāhir ibn ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī (1009 – 1078 or 1081 AD [400 – 471 or 474 A.H.]); [1] nicknamed "Al-Naḥawī" (the grammarian), he was a renowned Persian [2] grammarian of the Arabic language, literary theorist of the Muslim Shafi'i, and a follower of al-Ash'ari.
al-Takmila fi'l-Hisab, a treatise that contain results in number theory, and comments on works by al-Khwarizmi which are now lost. Ahkam al-Wat' al-Tamm, also known as Iltiqa' al-Khitanayn, a book on sexual ethics and pertaining laws in Islam, in four volumes. Bulugh al-Mada min Usul al-Huda; Fada'ih al-Karramiyya; Fada'ih al-Mu`tazila; al ...