Al-Khwarizmi

Muhammad bin Mussa Al‑Khwarizmi (c. 780–c. 850 CE) was a Persian mathematician of the Islamic Golden Age whose works on "al-Jabr" and Hindu‑Arabic numerals— preserved in Latin as Algoritmi de numero Indorum—laid the foundations for modern algebra and introduced algorithms to Europe.
Al‑Khwarizmi’s synthesis of Greek, Indian, Persian, and earlier Near Eastern mathematics created clear procedures that shaped Islamic and later European mathematics. His dual legacy—algebra and algorithms—remains foundational to modern science and computation.…more