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    Algebra comes from the Arabic word "al-jabr" meaning restoration, which was the title of a book by al-Khwarizmi. This word entered the English language in the Late Middle Ages from Spanish, Italian, or Latin. Originally, algebra referred to surgical procedures in medicine, while its current mathematical meaning developed later.

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    Algebra comes from the Arabic word "al-jabr" meaning restoration, which was the title of a book by al-Khwarizmi. This word entered the English language in the Late Middle Ages from Spanish, Italian, or Latin. Originally, algebra referred to surgical procedures in medicine, while its current mathematical meaning developed later.

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    Algebra comes from the Arabic word "al-jabr" meaning restoration, which was the title of a book by al-Khwarizmi. This word entered the English language in the Late Middle Ages from Spanish, Italian, or Latin. Originally, algebra referred to surgical procedures in medicine, while its current mathematical meaning developed later.

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    Etymology

    The word algebra comes from the Arabic language ( al-jabr "restoration") from the title of the
    book Ilm al-jabr wa'l-mu bala by al-Khwarizmi. The word entered the English language
    during Late Middle English from either Spanish, Italian, or Medieval Latin. Algebra originally
    referred to a surgical procedure, and still is used in that sense in Spanish, while the mathematical
    meaning was a later development.[7]

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