Al-Khwarizmi
Introduction:
Mohammed Ibn-Musa al-Khwarizmi was born was born about 790 AD near Baghdad. and died about 850 AD. He was known as a mathematician and astronomer who was a faculty member at the "House of Wisdom" established in Baghdad by Al-Mamun the Seventh Khaliph of Abbasid Empire. As a scholar at the House of Wisdom, al-Khwarizmi, directed and engaged in intellectual interests ranging from algebra and geometry to astronomy and the translation of Greek scientific manuscripts .
Introducing the Numeric Numbers:
Al-Khwarizmi wrote several books that played important roles in arithmetic and algebra. In his work, that based most probably on an Arabic translation of Brahmagupta (Indian Book) where he gave a full account of the Hindu numerals which was the first to explain the system with its digits 0,1,2,3,....,9 and decimal place value which was a fairly recent arrival from India. The new entry came to be known as that of al-Khwarizmi, ultimately the scheme of numeration making use......
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