Arabic in the Sciences
al-Jabr wa-l-Muqābala (Algebra)
الجبر والمقابلة
Al-Khwarizmi's book on al-jabr, translated into Latin twice in the 12th century, shaped medieval European algebra – and its title gave the science its name: algebra.
- Author
- Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (d. c. 847)
- Field
- Mathematics
- Arabic title
- الكتابُ المختصر في حسابِ الجبر والمقابلة
- Latin title
- Liber algebrae et almucabala (Robert of Chester); a second Latin version by Gerard of Cremona
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Sources
- G. J. Toomer, 'Al-Khwarizmi', Dictionary of Scientific Biography (PDF via MacTutor)
- MacTutor History of Mathematics: Al-Khwarizmi
- Arabic and Latin Corpus (Würzburg): Robert of Chester's Latin translation
- Arabic and Latin Corpus (Würzburg): Gerard of Cremona's Latin translation
- L. C. Karpinski, Robert of Chester's Latin Translation of the Algebra of al-Khowarizmi (1915), full text
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