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Who made algebra?
Algebra was not invented by any single person or civilization. It is a reasoning skill that is most likely as old as human beings. The concept of algebra began as a reasoning skill to determine unknown quantities. Anyway, one of the first books about Algebra was written in Arabic by a ninth-century scientist named Muhammad ibn Muas al-Khwarizmi. The title of the book was shortened to al-jabr, now spelled algebra. The word algebra comes from part of the Arab title that means "equals can be added to both sides of an equation". Al-Khwarizmi used his al-jabr to help him in scientific work in geography and astornomy.
What major event occured during the creation of algebra?
The word 'Algebra' is Arabic in origin, as 'A; Jebr', and means 'The Union of broken parts. The roots of algebra can be tracted back to Babylon approximatelt 1700 BC. Modern algebra was first used in the 16th Century,
Who first used algebra?
There were no Muslims around 4000 years ago when the Babylonians began using what we now call algebra.
What does aleberta mean?
I have never heard of 'aleberta'. Do you mean 'Alberta' or 'Algebra'? Alberta os a province of Canada, named after one of Queen Victoria's daughters, Princess Alberta. The word algebra comes from the Arabic term الجبر (al-jabr), which originally referred to the surgical treatment of bonesetting. In the 9th century, the term received a mathematical meaning when the Persian mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi employed it to describe a method of solving equations and used it as the title of a treatise on algebra, also known by the name The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing. The word entered the English language in the 16th century from Italian, Spanish, and medieval Latin.[17] Initially, the meaning of the term was restricted to the theory of equations, that is, to the art of manipulating polynomial equations in view of solving them. This changed in the course of the 19th century[c] when the scope of algebra broadened to cover the study of diverse types of algebraic operations and algebraic structures together with their underlying axioms.[20]
Which 17th century English mathematician wrote two famous books about mathematics-'The Artihmetica' and 'The Algebra'?
John Wallis
