MATHEMATICIAN

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

780 - 850

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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi c. 780 – c. 850, or simply al-Khwarizmi, was a mathematician active during the Islamic Golden Age, who produced Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. Around 820, he worked at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, the contemporary capital city of the Abbasid Caliphate. One of the most prominent scholars of the period, his works were widely influential on later authors, both in the Islamic world and Europe. His popularizing treatise on algebra, compiled between 813 and 833 as Al-Jabr (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing),: 171  presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi is the 5th most popular mathematician (down from 4th in 2019), the most popular biography from Turkmenistan and the most popular Turkmen Mathematician.

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi is most famous for his work in mathematics. He is considered the father of algebra.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi ranks 5 out of 1,004. Before him are Archimedes, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Carl Friedrich Gauss, and Blaise Pascal. After him are Euclid, Fibonacci, Ada Lovelace, Leonhard Euler, Omar Khayyam, John Forbes Nash Jr., and Bernhard Riemann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 780, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi ranks 1. After him are Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Pope Eugene II, Pope Valentine, Rabanus Maurus, Frederick of Utrecht, Theodote, and Odo I, Count of Orléans. Among people deceased in 850, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi ranks 1. After him are Ramiro I of Asturias, Emperor Ninmyō, and Wulfstan of Hedeby.

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In Turkmenistan

Among people born in Turkmenistan, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi ranks 1 out of 50. After him are Saparmurat Niyazov (1940), Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu (1199), Abu Muslim (718), Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow (1957), Al-Nasa'i (829), Ibn Khordadbeh (820), Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur (1603), Chaghri Beg (989), Al-Zamakhshari (1075), Al-Muqanna (800), and Yelena Bonner (1923).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Turkmenistan

Among mathematicians born in Turkmenistan, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi ranks 1. After him are Alī ibn Ahmad al-Nasawī (1010).

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