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Al Khwarizmi - The Beginnings of Algebra (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Al Khwarizmi - The Beginnings of Algebra (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Al-Khwarizmi was a mathematician, astronomer and geographer. He
worked most of his life as a scholar in the House of Wisdom in
Baghdad during the first half of the 9th century and is considered
by many to be the father of algebra. His Algebra (Kitab al-Jabr
wa-al-muqabala), written around 820, was the first scientific text
in history to systematically present algebra as a mathematical
discipline that is independent of geometry and arithmetic. This
groundbreaking work is divided into two main sections: one dealing
with algebraic theory, and the other focusing on the calculation of
inheritances and legacies. Al-Khwarizmi's book laid down the
groundwork for a scientific field where mathematics and juridical
learning meet, which was furthermore developed through the efforts
of successive generations of mathematicians and jurists. This text
also highlighted for the first time the deep-rooted possibilities
in algebra to extend the use of mathematical disciplines from one
to another, such as the application of arithmetic to algebra, or of
geometry into algebra, and vice-versa for these three disciplines
into one another; hence opening up novel areas of mathematical
research. Latin translations of al-Khwarizmi's book began in the
12th century, and these texts held a continuous influence over
algebra and mathematics until the 16th century.
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