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Sunset on the statue of Al-Khwārizmī in his birth town of Khiva, Uzbekistan

 

Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, formerly Latinized as Algoritmi, was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and geographer during the Abbasid Caliphate, a scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.

Some words reflect the importance of al-Khwārizmī's contributions to mathematics : algebra is derived from al-jabr and algorism and algorithm stem from Algoritmi, the Latin form of his name.

 

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