Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī

Name: Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī

Born: c. 780 in Chorasmia

Death: c. 850 (Age: 70)

Computer-related contributions

• Considered the founder of Algebra.
• Persian mathematician, astronomer, and geographer, a scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.
• The word algorithm is derived from al-Khwārizmī's name.

Significant publications

• The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing (c. 820 CE).