Stone to Silicon

Math & science · c. 820 CE

Algebra

Al-Khwarizmi's book of completion and balancing gives general methods to solve equations.

His treatise, written in Baghdad, gave systematic solutions of linear and quadratic equations; al-jabr gave algebra its name and his own name gave us algorithm. It made mathematics a toolkit for general problems.

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