Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (Persian: محمد بن موسى خوارزمی; c. 780 – c. 850), often referred to as simply al-Khwarizmi, was a polymath who produced vastly influential Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. Hailing from Khwarazm, he was appointed as the astronomer and head of the House of Wisdom in the city of Baghdad around 820 CE. 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. One of his achievements in algebra was his demonstration of how to solve quadratic equations by completing the square, for which he provided geometric justifications.: 14  Because al-Khwarizmi was the first person to treat algebra as an independent discipline and introduced the methods of "reduction" and "balancing" (the transposition of subtracted terms to the other side of an equation, that is, the cancellation of like terms on opposite sides of the equation), he has been described as the father or founder of algebra. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi has received more than 2,714,801 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.