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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was a ninth century Muslim mathematician and space expert. He is known as the "father of variable based math(algebra)", a word got from the title of his book, Kitab al-Jabr.
Born: he was born in C.780
Died: he was died in. C.850
Subjects of interest:
He was born to a Persian family and Ibn al-Nadim gives his origin as Khwarezm in Greater Khorasan (present day Khiva, Xorazm Region, Uzbekistan).
Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari gives his name as Muḥammad ibn Musá al-Khwārizmiyy al-Majūsiyy al-Quṭrubbaliyy The appellation al-Qutrubbulli could demonstrate he may rather have originated from Qutrubbul
Contribution
-Khwārizmī's method of solving linear and quadratic equations worked by first reducing the equation to one of six standard forms (where b and c are positive integers)