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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

780 - 850

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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (Persian: محمد بن موسى خوارزمی; c. 780 – c. 850), or simply al-Khwarizmi, was a Khwarazm-born polymath who produced vastly influential Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. Around 820 CE, he was appointed as the astronomer and head of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, the contemporary capital city of the Abbasid Caliphate. His popularizing treatise on algebra, compiled between 813–33 as Al-Jabr (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing),: 171  presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi has received more than 2,721,343 page views. His biography is available in 140 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 136 in 2019). Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi is the 4th most popular mathematician (up from 5th in 2019), the most popular biography from Turkmenistan (up from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Turkmen Mathematician.

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi is most famous for his work in mathematics. He is considered the father of algebra.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi ranks 4 out of 1,004. Before him are Archimedes, Blaise Pascal, and Carl Friedrich Gauss. After him are Euclid, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Leonhard Euler, Omar Khayyam, Al-Biruni, Hypatia, Bernhard Riemann, and Bertrand Russell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 780, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi ranks 1. After him are Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Pope Eugene II, Pope Valentine, Rabanus Maurus, Frederick of Utrecht, Odo I, Count of Orléans, and Theodote. Among people deceased in 850, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi ranks 1. After him are Ramiro I of Asturias, Emperor Ninmyō, and Wulfstan of Hedeby.

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In Turkmenistan

Among people born in Turkmenistan, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi ranks 1 out of 50. After him are Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu (1199), Abu Muslim (718), Saparmurat Niyazov (1940), Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow (1957), Al-Nasa'i (829), Al-Zamakhshari (1075), Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur (1603), Ibn Khordadbeh (820), Chaghri Beg (989), Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak (736), and Al-Muqanna (800).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Turkmenistan

Among mathematicians born in Turkmenistan, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi ranks 1. After him are Alī ibn Ahmad al-Nasawī (1010).

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