Who invented algebra?

Question

I need to know who invented algebra for extra credit in math.

Answer 1

Founder Of Algebra is Muhammad Bin Musa Almuhammad Khwarizmi Algorithm 770 840 C.e.khawrazmi Was An Iranian Ma

Answer 2

Algebra (from Arabic: الجبر, al-jabr) is derived from operations described in the treatise written by the Persian mathematician Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ḵwārizmī titled Al-Kitab al-Jabr wa-l-Muqabala (meaning "The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing") on the systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations. It is a branch of mathematics concerning the study of structure, relation and quantity. Elementary algebra is often taught in secondary education and gives an introduction to the basic ideas of algebra: studying what happens when numbers are added or multiplied, and how to make polynomials and find their roots.

Algebra is much broader than elementary algebra and can be generalized. Rather than working directly with numbers, one can work with symbols, variables, or elements of some set. Addition and multiplication are viewed as general operations, and their precise definitions lead to structures such as groups, rings and fields.

Together with geometry and analysis, algebra is one of the three main branches of mathematics.

Answer 3

A long time ago, in a far away land, a gentlemen by the name of George W. Algebra was "crunching the numbers" one day just to pass the time. He started adding to the numbers, letters, like "X" and "Y". Pretty soon everything was comming together and he found a pattern or system that made sense to him. He thought, "now what can I do with this stuff". So he thought and thought and decided---I can call this algebra and make high school students study and agonize over it for homework. By the time they figure out that it is useless for most people in real life---they will be finished with the class. And that's the "X" and the "Y" of algebra. Thanks, Geroge!

Answer 4

No one person appears to have invented algebra in all its complexity and
glory. Instead, it appears to have sort of "grown up." Western Europeans
learned their algebra from the works of the Persian mathematician Muhammed ibn
Musa al-Khowarizmi. The word, algebra, is a corruption of al-jabr which is
part of the title of his treatise, Hisab al-jabr w'al muqabalah which means
something like, "the science of reunion and reduction." It is pretty clear
that the Persians got some of these ideas from earlier work of the Babylonians,
Egyptians, Chinese, Hindus, and who knows else.

Answer 5

The Persian mathematician Muhammed ibn Musa al-Khowarizmi.
Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khwarizmi was born sometime before 800 A.D. and died after 847 A.D.

From his most important book, Al-jabr wa'l muqabalah , comes the word algebra. The word al-jabr presumably meant something like "restoration" or "completion" and seems to refer to the transposition of subtracted terms to the other side of an equation; the word muqabalah is said to refer to "reduction" or "balancing"--that is, the cancellation of like terms on opposite sides of the equations or the simplification of the resulting expression.

Diophantus is sometimes called "the father of Algebra," but this title more appropriately belongs to al-Khwarizmi. Al-Khwarizmi's work is on a more elementary and rhetorical level than that of Diophantus. Also, Arab scholars did not make any use of syncopation or of negative numbers. Al-jabr comes closer to elementary algebra of today than the works of either Diophantus or Brahmagupta, because the book is not concerned with difficult problems in indeterminant analysis but with a straight forward and elementary exposition of the solution of equations, especially that of second degree.

Answer 6

"Origin of the Word Algebra
The word algebra is a Latin variant of the Arabic word al-jabr. This came from the title of a book, Hidab al-jabr wal-muqubala, written in Baghdad about 825 A.D. by the Arab mathematician Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khowarizmi.

The words jabr (JAH-ber) and muqubalah (moo-KAH-ba-lah) were used by al-Khowarizmi to designate two basic operations in solving equations. Jabr was to transpose subtracted terms to the other side of the equation. Muqubalah was to cancel like terms on opposite sides of the equation. In fact, the title has been translated to mean "science of restoration (or reunion) and opposition" or "science of transposition and cancellation" and "The Book of Completion and Cancellation" or "The Book of Restoration and Balancing."

Jabr is used in the step where x - 2 = 12 becomes x = 14. The left-side of the first equation, where x is lessened by 2, is "restored" or "completed" back to x in the second equation.

Muqabalah takes us from x + y = y + 7 to x = 7 by "cancelling" or "balancing" the two sides of the equation.

Eventually the muqabalah was left behind, and this type of math became known as algebra in many languages. "

Answer 7

I don't know but when you find out, tell me so I can kick their butts! That subject kept me from making honor roll in high school!!!

Answer 8

Socrates.

Answer 9

Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khwarizmi

Answer 10

Actually the Babylonians in the 4th century.