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The medieval Arab-Islamic world played a crucial role in shaping the trajectory of mathematics, with al-Khwārizmī's algebraic innovations serving as a cornerstone. The dissemination of Arabic mathematics to the West during the Islamic Golden Age , facilitated by cultural exchanges and translations, left a lasting impact on Western ...
The Indian Society for History of Mathematics: 1– 26. Pascual, Lluís (2015). "An Archimedean Proposition Presented by the Brothers Banū Mūsā and Recovered in the Kitāb al-Istikmāl (eleventh century)" (PDF). Suhayl. International Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation. 14: 115– 143. ISSN 2013 ...
Works by mathematicians who lived under the rule of Islam during the Middle Ages, irrespective of their religion, ethnicity or language. Pages in category "Mathematical works of the medieval Islamic world"
Al-Jabr (Arabic: الجبر), also known as The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing (Arabic: الكتاب المختصر في حساب الجبر والمقابلة, al-Kitāb al-Mukhtaṣar fī Ḥisāb al-Jabr wal-Muqābalah; [b] or Latin: Liber Algebræ et Almucabola), is an Arabic mathematical treatise on algebra written in Baghdad around 820 by the Persian polymath ...
In the history of mathematics, Arabic mathematics or Islamic mathematics refers to the mathematics developed by the Islamic civilization between 622 and 1600.While most scientists in this period were Muslims and Arabic was the dominant language, contributions were made by people of many religions (Muslims as well as Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians) and ethnicities (Arabs as well as Persian ...
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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi [note 1] (Persian: محمد بن موسى خوارزمی; c. 780 – c. 850), or simply al-Khwarizmi, was a Persian [6] polymath who produced vastly influential Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography.
Among historians, his most widely studied work is his algebra book al-fakhri fi al-jabr wa al-muqabala, which survives from the medieval era in at least four copies. [6] He expounded the basic principles of hydrology [7] and this book reveals his profound knowledge of this science and has been described as the oldest extant text in this field.