"That fondness for science, ... that affability and condescension which God
shows to the learned, that promptitude with which he protects and supports them
in the elucidation of obscurities and in the removal of difficulties, has
encouraged me to compose a short work on calculating by al-jabr and al-muqabala
, confining it to what is easiest and most useful in arithmetic."
Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi
[Born: about 780 in Baghdad (now in Iraq). Died: about 850]
[al-jabr means "restoring", referring to the process of moving a subtracted quantity to the other side of an equation; al-muqabala is "comparing" and refers to subtracting equal quantities from both sides of an equation.]
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