When1: 825
Who: Mohammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi [al-Khwarizmi, Mohammad ibn Musa] or Algorizm or Muhammad Bin Musa al-Khwarizmi [al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad Bin Musa]
What: mathematician
Where: Baghdad, Iraq
works\ Arithmetic [825]; Algebra [839]; world map [830]
Detail: He lived 770 to 840, used Hindu numbers and fractions, and studied algebra. Adelard of Bath and Gerard of Cremona [1100 to 1150] translated his works and so transferred Indian and Islamic philosophy to Europe.
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