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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

LIFE
- father of Algorithm
- prominently known as Al-Khwārizmī
- a muslim mathematician, astronomer
- lived in Baghdad
- worked at the “House of Wisdom” (Dār al-Ḥikma) under the caliphate of al-Ma’mun
- famous for his mathematical works, which introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals and
algebra to European mathematicians.
- the words algorithm and algebra come from his name, in all factuality

WORKS
- Algebra was derived from his work on elementary algebra known as, Al-Kitāb al-
mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr waʾl-muqābala (translated as “The compendious book on
calculation by completion and balancing”), which was then translated into Latin in the
12th century.
- From his name, rendered in Latin as Algoritmi, the term algorithm was originated. In the
12th century, a second work by al-Khwārizmī introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals and
their arithmetic to the West. It is preserved only in a Latin translation, Algoritmi de
numero Indorum (“Al-Khwārizmī Concerning the Hindu Art of Reckoning”).
- A third major book was his Kitāb ṣūrat al-arḍ (“The Image of the Earth”; translated
as Geography), which presented the coordinates of localities in the known world based
- He also assisted in the construction of a world map for al-Maʾmūn
- Participated in a project to determine the circumference of the Earth, which had long
been known to be spherical
- Compiled a set of astronomical tables or Zij, based on a variety of Hindu and Greek
sources which includes a table of sines, evidently for a circle of radius 150 units.

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