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the sources place him in al-Ma''mun''s library
he was in Baghdad, not Morocco
he was a century and a half before al-Azhar
he was in Baghdad, not al-Andalus
it gave mathematics its new science
the Canon is Ibn Sina''s, not his
the Muqaddima is Ibn Khaldun''s, not his
the Healing is Ibn Sina''s
the Latin word derives from ''al-Khwarizmi''
from his own name, not his father''s
the word is from his name, algebra from his book
its root is his name in the sources
he carried them from India to Islam then Europe
he brought numerals, not letters
gunpowder was not his field
printing was not in his age
he worked about 820 and died about 850
he was two centuries after the seventh
he was three centuries before the twelfth
he was in the Abbasid, not Roman, era
al-Ma''mun made the House a centre of learning
he was a scholar in the caliph''s house, not his son
he was a scholar, not a caliph
he worked in the House under al-Ma''mun
the sources name his other books
he wrote on many sciences, not just medicine
he was a mathematician, not a poet
the sources name books on several sciences
from ''al-Jabr'' came algebra
from his book, not his city
its root is his Arabic book
from his book, not his teacher
his name is in every computer, his book in every school
electricity was not in his age
the pyramids predate him by millennia
his name is in the worldwide word algorithm
Europe translated him in the Middle Ages
his books and science historians'' accounts reach us
he was in the Abbasid, not pharaonic, era
Europe and the Arabs translated him
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