Physics With Anwar Ali

The word “algebra” comes from the Arabic word “al-jabr”, which means “reunion of broken parts” or “restoration”. This term was used by the Persian mathematician Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī in his 9th-century book “Kitab al-jabr wa al-muqabala”, which introduced methods for solving equations and laid the foundation for modern algebra. The word “algebra” was later translated into Latin and other languages, and gradually expanded to cover a wider range of mathematical topics and concepts.