Abu Ja’far Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi

Abu Ja’far Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi was born some time around the year 780 A.D. in Khwarism which is now Khiva, Uzbekistan, the exact date of his birth is unknown.
He began working with his colleagues at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad where they translated Greek manuscripts. They also studied Algebra, Geometry, and Astronomy. Since their country was run by a strict dictatorship, al-Khwarizmi devoted two of his works to the Caliph, which was what the emperor was called. The two works were descriptions on algebra and astronomy, and were called treatises.
The treatise on algebra was considered far most famous, and was called Hisab al-jabr w'al-muqabala. The title of the treatise actually gives the name algebra, and was probably the first book to be written algebra. In his book he wrote out ways to...