Al-Khwarizmi was born in about AD 780, and although his birthplace isn’t known for sure, the al-Khwārizmī in his name can mean “the native of Khwarazm”, which at the time was part of Greater Iran, but is now part of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, so many believe he grew up in t...
His full name is Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi. The last-mentioned name (hisnisba) refers to his birthplace, Khwarizm, modern Khiva, south of the Aral Sea. He was born around 780 in the town of Kath part of Khwarizm. Kath is now buried in the sand. He died around 850...
but al-Khwarizmi's book, as the first comprehensive treatment of it, became a medieval bestseller. The Arabic word for "the restoring" in the book's title isal-jabr,which is the source of our wordalgebra.Al-Khwarizmi's own name is the source of another mathematical term in English,algorit...
these translations became popular as algorismi – a term which is derived from the name of Al-Khwarizmi. Not all went smoothly nonetheless. The Arabic numerals introduced by Al-Khwarizmi, like much of new mathematics, were not welcomed
Al-Khwarizmi, Muslim mathematician and astronomer whose major works introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals and the concepts of algebra into European mathematics. Latinized versions of his name and of his most famous book title live on in the terms algorithm an