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Alalaamal-Khwarizmi
The MajlisCompare livesCities
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Lives overlapped, c. 801–850 · a meeting was possibleNamed in each other's circleShared city: Baghdad
BrahmaguptaPtolemyEuclidDiophantus
Teacher
Educated in Basra & Baghdad
Abu Kamilal-KarajiOmar KhayyamFibonaccial-BattaniNone recorded by name
Student
al-Sarakhsi
The Banu Musaal-Kindial-FarghaniHunayn ibn IshaqSind ibn Ali
Peers
al-KhwarizmiThe Banu MusaHunayn ibn Ishaqal-Jahiz
al-Ma'munal-Mu'tasimHarun al-Rashid
Acquaintances
al-Ma'munal-Mu'tasim
Abu Nuwasal-Shafi'iIbn Hanbalal-JahizCharlemagneZiryab
Same generation
None recorded
Khwarazm
Born in
Kufa
Baghdad
Died in
Baghdad
Baghdad
Lived in
BasraBaghdad

A founding scholar of the Abbasid House of Wisdom under al-Ma'mun. His method of balancing equations named algebra, and the Latin of his name became the word 'algorithm'.

Biography

The 'Philosopher of the Arabs' — polymath of philosophy, optics and medicine, and author of the first known work on breaking ciphers.

Al-Jabr wa'l-Muqabalac.820
On Calculation with Hindu Numeralsc.825
Zij al-Sindhindc.820s
Kitab Surat al-Ardc.833
On the Astrolabe
Publications
On First Philosophy
On Deciphering Cryptographic Messages
On the Use of Indian Numerals
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