Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (c 780 - c 850) was a famous Persian mathematician, astronomer and geographer. He is perhaps most famous for his book, "Kitab al-Jabr wa-l-Muqabala", which provided the first systematic solutions of linear and quadratic equations. In the twelfth century, Latin translations of his work on the Indian numerals, introduced the decimal positional number system to the Western world.
Can you think of two ubiquitous words in mathematics/computer science which have their origin traced back to him?
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I am guessing
Algorithms? and Floats (floating point)?
Algebra (from his book "al-Jabr-wa") and algorithm (from his name "al-khwarizmi)
Knew this from before though, didn't work it out or anything :).
1. Algebra.
2. Not sure.. Recursion? :P
My guess is Algebra and Arithmatic. I am pretty certain about the first one ("al-Jabr wa"), not so sure about the second.
Algebra and zero (shunya)
Zero and Inf?
Al-jabr -->> Algebra? Or Algrebraic equations
Haa my Random guesses were :
Algebra and Algorithm ....
they were confirmed by Hari and Mangesh.
We have rechristened you Al-Mota :)
The correct answer: Algorithm and Algebra.
The word Algorithm stems from the latin form of his name: Algorithmi and the word Algebra is derived from the arabic word "al-jabr" from the title of his book.
Many of you got half of the answer; Nikhil and Madhur got the complete answer.
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