Book:Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi/Al-Kitāb al-muḫtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-ğabr wa-l-muqābala
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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi: Al-Kitāb al-muḫtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-ğabr wa-l-muqābala
Published $\text {c. 830}$
In English:
- The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing
Subject Matter
- A systematic study of the solution of linear and quadratic equations.
Contents
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Also known as
In Arabic: الكتاب المختصر في حساب الجبر والمقابلة)
Also known as The Algebra.
Critical View
- Some authors are inclined to exaggerate the mathematical side of the discipline and to pose problems requiring for their solution various branches of arithmetic, such as algebra, the use of roots, and similar things.
- -- Ibn Khaldun
- ... to which David Wells replies:
- Well, mathematicians would, wouldn't they?
Sources
- 1971: Allan Clark: Elements of Abstract Algebra ... (previous) ... (next): Introduction
- 1986: J.L. Berggren: Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam
- 1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Al-Khwarizmi (c. $825$ ad)
- 1997: Donald E. Knuth: The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms (3rd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $\S 1.1$: Algorithms
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa (c. 780-c. 850)
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa (c.780-c.850)
- 2008: Ian Stewart: Taming the Infinite ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $4$: Lure of the Unknown: Al-jabr