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Algebra comes from an Arabic word (al-jabr) meaning 'to restore'. It was a method of maths first credited to an Arabic mathematician Al-Khwarizmi who worked with numbers by breaking them down into basic units.

Alternate Answer: Leonard Euler wrote a math book with the word 'Algebra' in it and it became very popular back in the 17th Century. His book contained the material from Al-Khwarizmi, and nearly every 'Algebra' book in English or German since that time has more or less coplied Euler's book. The basic understandings of the subject occur earlier in history in Hindu literature. A few years before Al-Khwarizmi a Hindu mathmetician was brought in from India by the Muslim Caliph/leader to teach the Muslim World about math in the Hindu World.

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