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Who was al-Khwarizmi?

من كان الخوارزمي؟

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (c. 780–850), a scholar of the House of Wisdom, who established algebra as an independent discipline; the term 'algorithm' in modern science comes from his name.

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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (c. 780–850) was a scholar of the House of Wisdom. He established algebra as an independent science, and the word algorithm in modern science derives from his name. 1

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