Al-Khwarizmi: Considered by some the
inventor of algebra, Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was a
Persian mathematician working at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad in the
ninth century.
In fact, the very name of this form of
math is derived from the Arabic al-jabr, meaning “restoring,” which is
how al-Khwarizmi referred to the operation of removing roots and squares
from a quadratic equation by adding the same quantity to each side of
the equation. And algorithms, like those devised to deliver search
results on the modern Internet, derive from the Latin version of his
name: Al-goritmi. You can also thank him for the modern numeral system,
which is based on Hindu-Arabic numbers derived from Indian mathematics.
He also contributed to astronomy, trigonometry and even geography.
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