A Muslim invented Algebra?
"A Muslim invented Algebra?"
I knew there was a reason I hated that class 21 years ago!
No, they borrowed it from the Hindi.
Sure. Al Gebra, Al Gore's cousin.
Still can't build a sewer system.
Hindu's invented Algebra...the Muslims raided India, destroyed it's universities, libraries, and claimed the knowledge there as theirs...
A Muslim invented Algebra?
No, but medieval Europeans got it from the Muslims, and adopted their name for it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra#History
No, a Muslim did not invent algebra. Algebraic equations were used by Babylonian, Hindi, and Greek mathemeticians centuries prior. The Persians did, however, translate these works, add to them, and algebra is named from the Arabic title given to the earliest Persian algebra book.
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