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Al-Khwarizmi

Type Figure Region Khwarazm Time c. 780–850 Also known as 穆罕默德·伊本·穆萨·花拉子米、al-Khwarizmi、Al-Khwarizmi、Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

Mathematician, astronomer, and geographer of the Islamic Golden Age whose name gave us "algorithm" and whose algebra treatise founded the discipline.

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  1. c. 780–800Khwarazm · KhwarazmBy tradition al-Khwarizmi was born in Khwarazm in Central Asia, where he received Islamic scholarly training and laid the foundations of his mathematics and astronomy before going to the core lands of the Abbasid caliphate for further study.
  2. c. 800–830Baghdad · BaghdadWith the support of Caliph al-Ma'mun and others, he worked at the House of Wisdom on translation, astronomical observation, and mathematical research, helped compile astronomical tables such as the Zij al-Sindhind, and introduced the Indian numeral system to the Islamic world.
  3. c. 820–850Baghdad · BaghdadHe wrote al-Jabr, a systematic treatment of solving linear and quadratic equations, and the Book on Indian Arithmetic introducing positional notation; his geographical work The Land of Sind and Hind revised Ptolemy's coordinate system and influenced medieval European geography.

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