Al-Khwarizmi
c. 780-c. 850
Arab Mathematician and Astronomer
Although al-Khwarizmi was an early Arab proponent of the use of Hindu numerals—which were eventually adopted so widely throughout th...
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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (died ca. 850) was a Moslem mathematician, astronomer, and geographer and one of the most seminal scientific minds of early Islamic culture.Al-Khwarizmi flourished at th...
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Believed to have been born about a.d. 780 in the country of Khwarizm, (now the Uzbeki city of Khiva), al-Khwarizmi (also spelled al-Khowarizmi) played an influential role in the history of mathematics...
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