Al xorazmiy biography
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The Father of Algebra - Al-Khorezmi
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khorezmi is the famous Muslim scientist of the IX century, astronomer, mathematician, and geographer. His contribution to medieval science is enormous. Thanks to him, Europe have learned what decimal counts and numbers are, and the terms algebra and algorithm are derived from his name and the title of his scientific book.
Unfortunately, there is little detailed information about the life of al-Khorezmi. It is known that the talented scientist was born in Khiva in about 783. The scientist spent his mature years in Baghdad under the leadership of the local caliph and patron of sciences Al-Abbas ibn al-Ma’mun. There, al-Khorezmi headed the Baghdad library “House of Wisdom”. The numerous scientific works of the scientist in algebra and astronomy were written in this library.
The work of al-Khorezmi on the algebra “Kitab al-jabr wa-l-mukabala” gained such popularity in the medieval West that for several centuries it served as a classic manual of mathematics for students of European universities.
Thanks to mathematical calculations, he carried out thorough calculations of the position of the Sun, Moon and planets during solar eclipses. In 827, in the desert, al-Khorezmi participated in measuring the degree of arc o
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Al khwarizmi
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Al-Khwarizmi
Persian polymath (c. 780 – c. 850)
For other uses, see Al-Khwarizmi (disambiguation).
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi[note 1] (Persian: محمد بن موسى خوارزمی; c. 780 – c. 850), or simply al-Khwarizmi, was a polymath who produced vastly influential Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. Around 820, he worked at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, the contemporary capital city of the Abbasid Caliphate.
His popularizing treatise on algebra, compiled between 813–833 as Al-Jabr (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing),[6]: 171 presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations. One of his achievements in algebra was his demonstration of how to solve quadratic equations by completing the square, for which he provided geometric justifications.[7]: 14 Because al-Khwarizmi was the first person to treat algebra as an independent discipline and introduced the methods of "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),[8] he has been described as the father[9][1