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Islamic mathematics
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Mathematics in the medieval Islamic world.
Origin and spread of Arab-Islamic mathematics
Arabic mathematics, particularly algebra, developed significantly during the medieval period. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwārizmī's (Arabic: محمد بن موسى الخوارزمي; c. 780 – c. 850) work between AD 813 and 833 in Baghdad was a turning point. He introduced the term "algebra" in the title of his book, "Kitab al-jabr wa al-muqabala," marking it as a distinct discipline. He regarded his work as "a short work on Calculation by (the rules of) Completion and Reduction, confining it to what is easiest and most useful in arithmetic".