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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi[1] (Arabic: محمد بن موسى الخوارزمي Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ḵwārizmī) was a mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and geographer of Persian origin.[2] He was born around 780, in either Khwarizm or Baghdad, and died around 850.
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He was the author of al-Kitāb al-muḵtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-ǧabr wa-l-muqābala, the first book on the systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations. Consequently he is considered to be the father of algebra,[3] a title he shares with Diophantus. The word algebra is derived from al-ǧabr[4], one of the two operations used to solve quadratic equations, as described in his book. Algoritmi de numero Indorum, the Latin translation of his other major work on the Indian numerals, introduced the positional number system and the number zero to the Western world in the 12th century. The words algorism and algorithm stem from Algoritmi, the Latinization of his name.[5]