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ABU JA'FAR MUHAMMAD IBN MUSA al-KHWARIZMI (c.786 - 850) |
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| Al-Khwarizmi is best known for his work
in mathematics. For centuries after his death, his works
were still among the most comprehensive published on this
subject. By studying translations of the Greek
manuscripts collected at the House of Wisdom (Baghdad),
al-Khwarizmi and his associates were able to build upon
earlier mathematical models. It is through al-Khwarizmi’s texts that we derive two basic mathematical terms. ‘Algebra’ comes from Hisab al-jabr w'al-muqabala, the first and most important of al-Khwarizmi’s work. His second work on the Hindu numbering system (where the numbers 0-9 would eventually be derived), Algoritmi de numero Indorum, gave birth to the term ‘algorithm’. Additional information: http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Al-Khwarizmi.html Photo courtesy of http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/BigPictures/Al-Khwarizmi_2.jpeg
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