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Book/Printed Material The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing.

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Title

  • The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing.

Summary

  • Born into a Persian family in Khuwarizm (present-day Xorazm Province, Uzbekistan), Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (also known by the Latin form of his name, Algoritmi, circa 780--850 AD, 164--236 AH) was a Muslim mathematician, astronomer, and geographer, and a scholar in the famed House of Wisdom in Baghdad. Al-Khwarazmi wrote Kitab al-Jabr wa-l-Muqabala (The compendious book on calculation by completion and balancing) around 830 AD, with the encouragement of Caliph Al-Maamoun, the reigning Abbasid caliph of Baghdad in 813--33 AD. It is meant to be a useful work, with examples and applications for everyday life, in areas such as trade, legal inheritance, and surveying. The mathematical term algebra is derived from al-jabr, one of the two operations he used to solve quadratic equations. Also, the words algorism, algorithm, and arithmetic stem from Algoritmi. Similarly, his name is the origin of the Spanish term guarismo and of the Portuguese algarismo, both meaning digit.

Names

  • Ahmed, Muhammad Mursi Contributor.
  • Khuwārizmī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsȧ, flourished 813-846 Author.
  • Mushrifah, Ali Mustafa, 1898-1950 Contributor.

Created / Published

  • Cairo : Paul Barber Press, 1937.

Headings

  • -  Iraq--Baghdad--Baghdad
  • -  780 to 850
  • -  Inheritance and succession
  • -  Surveying
  • -  Trade

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 106 pages, 24 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
  • -  Content in Arabic.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Arabic and Islamic Science and Its Influence on the Western Scientific Tradition: Mathematics

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021666184

Online Format

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  • pdf
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Chicago citation style:

Ahmed, Muhammad Mursi Contributor, Muḥammad Ibn Mūsȧ Khuwārizmī, and Ali Mustafa Mushrifah. The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing. Cairo: Paul Barber Press, 1937. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666184/.

APA citation style:

Ahmed, M. M. C., Khuwārizmī, M. I. M. & Mushrifah, A. M. (1937) The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing. Cairo: Paul Barber Press. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666184/.

MLA citation style:

Ahmed, Muhammad Mursi Contributor, Muḥammad Ibn Mūsȧ Khuwārizmī, and Ali Mustafa Mushrifah. The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing. Cairo: Paul Barber Press, 1937. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666184/>.