Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
by 2000 bc
The first systematic book on algebra was written in Baghdad, Iraq. However, algebraic methods were also used in China, India, Egypt and Greece long before that.
Geometry did not originate in India.
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.
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
ghtrf
by 2000 bc
The first systematic book on algebra was written in Baghdad, Iraq. However, algebraic methods were also used in China, India, Egypt and Greece long before that.
Geometry did not originate in India.
I believe it originated in ancient Egypt and Babylon.
George Boole is credited with the invention of Boolean algebra which was introduced in his first book, The Mathematical Analysis of Logic (1847).
Arabic: Al-Jabira or something similar
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.
Elementary algebra
Algebra. I took it in that order, and to do most of the geometry, you HAVE to know algebra. If I had taken geometry first, I would have failed. ALGEBRA FIRST.
Arabic, from al-jabr (الجبر) literally meaning restoration.