Al-khwarizmi contribution to mathematics
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Al-Khwarizmi
Persian polymath (c. 780 – c. 850)
For other uses, see Al-Khwarizmi (disambiguation).
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi[note 1] (Persian: محمد بن موسى خوارزمی; c. 780 – c. 850), or simply al-Khwarizmi, was a polymath who produced vastly influential Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. Around 820, he worked at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, the contemporary capital city of the Abbasid Caliphate.
His popularizing treatise on algebra, compiled between 813–833 as Al-Jabr (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing),[6]: 171 presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations. One of his achievements in algebra was his demonstration of how to solve quadratic equations by completing the square, for which he provided geometric justifications.[7]: 14 Because al-Khwarizmi was the first person to treat algebra as an independent discipline and introduced the methods of "reduction" and "balancing" (the transpositio
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al-Khwarizmi
(Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi)
Arab mathematician, b. c. 780 (Khwarizm), d. c. 850.
Muhammad ibn Musa was born in Khwarizm, today's Khiva south of the Aral Sea and is known in history as al-Khwarizmi. A mathematician and astronomer, he lived and worked in Baghdad during the first golden age of Arabic science under the caliphs al-Ma'mun and al-Mu'tasim.
Several works of Al-Khwarizmi are known. He wrote the Mafatih al-'Ulum ("Key to the Sciences"), the first Arabic encyclopaedia of knowledge that was organized on scientific principles. Its contents was classified into indigenous knowledge (jurisprudence, scholastic philosophy, grammar, secretarial duties, prosody and poetic art, history) and foreign knowledge (philosophy, logic, medicine, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music, mechanics, alchemy).
Al-Khwarizmi's fame as a scientist derives from his achievements in mathematics. His work on arithmetic was translated into Latin in the 12th century, and although the original is lost, the Latin translation Algoritmi de numero Indorum ("The al-K
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| Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī |
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A stamp issued September 6, 1983 in the Soviet Union, commemorating al-Khwārizmī's (approximate) 1200th anniversary. |
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Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (Arabic: محمد بن موسى الخوارزمي) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and geographer. He was born around 780 in Khwārizm (now Khiva, Uzbekistan) and died around 850. He worked most of his life as a scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.
His Algebra was the first book on the systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations. Consequently he is considered to be the father of algebra,[1] a title he shares with Diophantus. Latin translations of his Arithmetic, on the Indian numerals, introduced the decimal positional number system to the Western world in the twelfth century.[2] He revised and updated Ptolemy's Geography as well as writing several works on astronomy and astrology.
His contributions not only made a great impact on mathematics, but on language as well. The word algebra is derived from al-jabr
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