Steven H. Strogatz Quotes

In The Early Part Of The Ninth Century, Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi, A Mathematician Working In Baghdad, Wrote A Seminal Textbook In Which He Highlighted The Usefulness Of Restoring A Quantity Being Subtracted (like 2, Above) By Adding It To The Other Side Of An Equation. He Called This Process Al-jabr (Arabic For "restoring"), Which Later Morphed Into "algebra." Then, Long After His Death, He Hit The Etymological Jackpot Again. His Own Name, Al-Khwarizmi, Lives On Today In The Word "algorithm.

Steven H. Strogatz Quotes: In The Early Part Of The Ninth Century, Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-khwarizmi, A Mathematician Working In Baghdad, Wrote A Seminal

Steven H. Strogatz Quotes: In The Early Part Of The Ninth Century, Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-khwarizmi, A Mathematician Working In Baghdad, Wrote A Seminal

Steven H. Strogatz Quotes: In The Early Part Of The Ninth Century, Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-khwarizmi, A Mathematician Working In Baghdad, Wrote A Seminal

Steven H. Strogatz Quotes: In The Early Part Of The Ninth Century, Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-khwarizmi, A Mathematician Working In Baghdad, Wrote A Seminal

Steven H. Strogatz Quotes: In The Early Part Of The Ninth Century, Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-khwarizmi, A Mathematician Working In Baghdad, Wrote A Seminal

Steven H. Strogatz Quotes: In The Early Part Of The Ninth Century, Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-khwarizmi, A Mathematician Working In Baghdad, Wrote A Seminal

Steven H. Strogatz Quotes: In The Early Part Of The Ninth Century, Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-khwarizmi, A Mathematician Working In Baghdad, Wrote A Seminal

Steven H. Strogatz Quotes: In The Early Part Of The Ninth Century, Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-khwarizmi, A Mathematician Working In Baghdad, Wrote A Seminal

Steven H. Strogatz Quotes: In The Early Part Of The Ninth Century, Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-khwarizmi, A Mathematician Working In Baghdad, Wrote A Seminal

Steven H. Strogatz Quotes: In The Early Part Of The Ninth Century, Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-khwarizmi, A Mathematician Working In Baghdad, Wrote A Seminal

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