The Father of Algebra

Muhammad ibn musa al-Khwarizmi often called

“The father of algebra” was a 9th-century was
a Persian polymath from Khwarazm Muslim
Mathematician and astronomer.
He is known as the father of
algebra because he was the
first ever to treat algebra as an
independent discipline and first
to introduce reduction and
balancing. (The transposition of
subtracted terms to the other
side of an equation, that is the
cancellation of like terms on
opposite sides of the equation).
He also produced vastly influential works
in mathematics, astronomy, and geography ,and a
prominent director of a famous library in Baghdad
called the House of Wisdom.
He translated and adapted significant mathematical
and scientific texts from earlier Greek and Indian
scholars. He revised and updated one of Ptolemy's
books on cartography and geography. The roots of
algebra can be traced to the ancient Babylonians,
who developed an advanced arithmetical system
with which they were able to do calculations in an
algorithmic fashion.