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1..Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi invented the Having introduced the natural numbers, al-Khwarizmi introduces the main topic of this first section of his book, namely the solution of equations. His equations are linear or quadratic and are composed of units, roots and squares. For example, to al-Khwarizmi a unit was a number, a root was x, and a square was x2. However, although we shall use the now familiar algebraic notation in this article to help the reader understand the notions, Al-Khwarizmi's mathematics is done entirely in words with no symbols being used. He first reduces an equation (linear or quadratic) to one of six standard forms: 1.
Approximate Word count = 380 Approximate Pages = 1.5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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