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Algebra is essential to mathematics and acts as the foundational language that underpins nearly every other branch of the field
The word algebra comes from the Arabic term al-jabr, meaning "restoration," "completion," or the "reunion of broken parts". [, , ]
Origins and History
Algebra is essential to mathematics and acts as the foundational language that underpins nearly every other branch of the field
The word algebra comes from the Arabic term al-jabr, meaning "restoration," "completion," or the "reunion of broken parts". [, , ]
Origins and History
- The 9th-Century Treatise: The term comes from the title of a groundbreaking 9th-century book written in Baghdad by the Persian mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi: Al-Kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wal-muqābalah (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing).
- Meaning of "Al-Jabr": Originally, al-jabr was a medical term used for the surgical setting of broken or dislocated bones. In mathematics, Al-Khwarizmi used it to describe the operation of moving a subtracted (negative) term from one side of an equation to the other to "restore" or balance it.
- Evolution into English: The Arabic title was translated into Latin as Liber Algebrae et Almucabola in the Middle Ages. By the 16th century, the shortened word algebra entered the English language—initially referring to the art of bone-setting before taking on its strict mathematical meaning. [, , ]
