Book of Restoring and Balancing
“al-Kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr waʾl-muqābala”; “Kitab al-jabr wa al-muqābalah”
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contribution to algebra
...from whose name the word
algorithm is derived, creatively combined Hellenistic and Sanskritic concepts. The word
algebra derives from the title of his major work,
Kitāb al-jabr wa al-muqābalah (“The Book of Integration and Equation”). Movements such as
falsafah (a combination of the positive...
Islamic contributions to mathematics began around
ad 825, when the Baghdad mathematician Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī wrote his famous treatise
al-Kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wa’l-muqābala (translated into Latin in the 12th century as
Algebra et Almucabal, from which the modern term...
Mathematics in the 9th century
...in his astronomical works and also wrote an early book explaining Hindu arithmetic, the
Book of Addition and Subtraction According to the Hindu Calculation. In another work, the
Book of Restoring and Balancing, he provided a systematic introduction to algebra, including a theory of quadratic equations. Both works had important consequences for Islamic mathematics....
discussed in biography
...House of Wisdom acquired and translated scientific and philosophic treatises, particularly Greek, as well as publishing original research.) Al-Kwārizmī’s work on elementary algebra,
al-Kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr waʾl-muqābala (“The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing”), was translated...