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Maths in the Early Islamic World

In Our Time

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Alquarisme, the Father of Algebra

Alquarisme is the founder or re inventor of algebra. What he was doing as a to someone like diaphantus the greek, was that he wasn't looking at specific examples. The greeks and babylonians were just looking at ic examples. His book was very much a book for the wider public in hear sing here are lots of different problems that you will encounter in daily lives. I'm going to give yo the technique that you need to use for solving any such problem of this type. Peter porman, could we develop this? Heis still called, you emphatically callingte father of the father of algebra. And he changed mathematicsatthat by doing

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