Al khwarizmi the father of algebra

•Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was a 9th-century Muslim mathematician and astronomer.

•He is known as the “father of algebra”, a word derived from the title of his book, Kitab al-Jabr.

•His pioneering work offered practical answers for land distribution, rules on inheritance and distributing salaries.

•He also developed the concept of the algorithm in mathematics, which is why some have called him the “grandfather of computer science”.

•Khwarizmi was one of the most famous scholars of Bayt al-Hikma (The House of Wisdom), Baghdad’s intellectual powerhouse.

•The House of Wisdom was a centre for the study of sciences, including mathematics, astronomy, medicine, chemistry, geography and astrology.