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MATHEMATICIAN

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

780 - 850

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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (Arabic: محمد بن موسى الخوارزمي; c. 780 – c. 850), often referred to as simply al-Khwarizmi, was a Persian 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 2,704,164 page views. His biography is available in 136 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 132 in 2019). Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi is the 5th most popular mathematician (up from 7th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Uzbekistan (down from 1st in 2019) and the most popular Uzbekistani 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 5 out of 823Before him are Archimedes, Blaise Pascal, Carl Friedrich Gauss, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. After him are Leonhard Euler, Omar Khayyam, Euclid, Hypatia, Bertrand Russell, Al-Biruni, and Bernhard Riemann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 780, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi ranks 1After 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 1After him are Ramiro I of Asturias, Emperor Ninmyō, and Wulfstan of Hedeby.

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In Uzbekistan

Among people born in Uzbekistan, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi ranks 3 out of 145Before him are Avicenna (980) and Timur (1336). After him are Al-Biruni (973), Muhammad al-Bukhari (810), Babur (1483), Al-Tirmidhi (824), Islam Karimov (1938), Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (893), Shah Rukh (1377), Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari (1327), and Shavkat Mirziyoyev (1957).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Uzbekistan

Among mathematicians born in Uzbekistan, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi ranks 1After him are Al-Biruni (973).