It was Al-Khwarizmi's work entitled, Al-Kitab Al-Mukhtasar fi hisab al-jabr wal mugabala, that leads us to the word algebra. The "al-jabr" was extracted and applied to that subject beloved by teenagers around the world. its arabic
The ultimate deravation is Arabic - al jebr, meaning a 'reunion of broken parts' as in computation. Known in Baghdad in the 9th Century
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The word "algebra" came from the Arabic "al-jabr," meaning restoration. But algebra itself came earlier from India, the ancient Babylonians, Greeks, Chinese, and Egyptians.
Arabic, from al-jabr (الجبر) literally meaning restoration.