al-Khwarizmi (Person) AKA Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
al-Khwarizmi
780 AD - 850 AD
AKA Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
Founder of algebra, His name was originally translated as Algorithmi which gives rise to the word algorithm.
Translations of his work also helped introduce arabic numerals and decimal notation.
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Statue of al-Khwarizmi in Tehran In front of the Faculty of Mathematics at Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran, Iran
Statue of Al-Khwārizmī in Khiva, Uzbekistan his birth town
A stamp honoring al-Khwārizmī' A stamp issued September 6, 1983 in the Soviet Union, commemorating al-Khwārizmī's (approximate) 1200th birthday.
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