Al-Khwarizmi · Mathematics
How Al-Khwarizmi’s <em>Al-Kitab al-Mukhtasar fi Hisab al-Jabr wa’l-Muqabala</em> turned scattered tricks for solving equations into a single systematic science - and gave algebra its very name.
You learned how Al-Khwarizmi founded algebra as a systematic science of equations, built on the two operations al-jabr (restoration) and al-muqabala (balancing). Explain what these two operations do and why the work was revolutionary.
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