Muhammad+al-Khwarizmi

= Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi  =

= Summarized Biography =

(died at age 70) and was also born into a persian family and his birthplace was Chorasmia. He was the founder of algerbra and known as algerbra's father.
= Important Mathematical Discoveries =
 * ====Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi established the basis for algerbra, trigonometry and, Astronomy. ====
 * He assisted a project to determine the circumference of the Earth and in making a world map for al-Ma'mun.
 * In Renaissance Europe he was considered the original inventor of algebra, although we now know that his work is based on older Indian or Greek sources.

= Work Outside of Mathematics =
 * ====He didnt do much work outside of mathematics.====
 * He worked on creating the Jewish calander
 * ====He wrote books on mathematics.====
 * ====Al-Kwarizmi worked in Baghdad as a scholar at the House of Wisdom.====

===Other Important Information === ====Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizimi name is spanish and Portuguese and they both mean "digit." His systematic aproach to solving linear and quadratic equations was what led him to the discovery algerbra.====

His contributions had a great impact of language. "Algebra" is derived from Al-jabr, one of the two operations he used to solve quadratic equations
= Fun Facts =
 * ====People referred to him as "Algebras father!"====
 * ====20-30 years before he died he created a book 'a//__l-Kitab Al-Mukhtasar fi hisab al-jabr wa’l mugabala'__// in english ' __the book on calculations by completion and balancing'.__====
 * ====Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi accomplished most of his work between 813 and 833.====
 * ====Some of his work was based on Babylonian astronomy, indian numbers, and greek mathematics.====
 * ====On the far side of the moon there is a crater named after Al-Khwarizmi.====
 * ====The Khwarizmi International Reward is an Iranian reward named after him.====

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