Algebra
Al-jabr - the Arabic phrase we Anglicise to Algebra. He didn't invent the word itself, but the use of it.
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Al-Khowarizmi, the Iraqi mathemation, is credited with the development of algebra which he call al-Jabr (the reunion)
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Algebra as we know it today is generally credited to work done by the 9th century Persian mathematician al-Khowarizmi. The original Arabic al-jabr meant "completion" or "balancing".
"The Algebra of Al-Khowarizimi"
Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khowarizmi.
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written in Baghdad about 825 A.D. by the Arab mathematician Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khowarizmi
He is from Khwarizm, a region that is south of the Aral Sea.