Al-Khwarizmi was a scholar at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, born around 780 CE though no source records his exact birth date. His book on al-jabr wa'l-muqabala, completed between 813 and 833, gave algebra both its name and its first systematic treatment of linear and quadratic equations, and his arithmetic treatise carried the Hindu-Arabic numeral system into the Middle East and Europe. His own Latinized name, Algoritmi, is the root of the word algorithm. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own accountConventional scholarly estimate, c. 780; Wikipedia's own account notes few biographical details of his life are known at all. FieldSourced to the subject's own accountMathematics and astronomy 1 Connections
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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, or simply al-Khwarizmi (c. 780, c. 850) was a mathematician active during the Islamic Golden Age, who produced Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography.
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