Did Muslim Scholars Invent Algebra?
Did Muslim Scholars Invent Algebra? Did Muslim scholars invent algebra? Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi Who invented algebra in Islam? Islamic contributions to mathematics began around ad 825, when the Baghdad mathematician Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī wrote his famous treatise al-Kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wa’l-muqābala (translated into Latin in the 12th century as Algebra et