The term #Algorithm is Al-Khwarizmi translated into #Latin
The #scientist & #mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi lived from 780 to 850 AD in Persia & #Iraq.
Also known as the father of #algebra,
Al-Khwarizmi’s #book, “Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing” introduced systematic methods for solving linear & quadratic equations.Using letters as symbols to represent unknown quantities, lay the foundation for symbolic algebra.