Introduction

Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was a Persian scholar during the Islamic Golden Age. During this period Europe was 'asleep' in The Dark Ages.

His contribution to mathematics was enormous; translating Greek and Hindu texts on geometry and astronomy, popularising the Hindu-Arabic numeral system used throughout the world today and his great book

الكتاب المختصر في حساب الجبر والمقابلة

al-Kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wal-muqābala

The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing

The word al-jabr in the title is where the modern word algebra comes from.

	Created by Eric Pearson about 9 years ago

Overview and Objectives of the Unit