100%.

One thing I want to add that's not in the article is that Khwarizmi means "from Khwarizm", which was an old Persian kingdom. Today it's part of Uzbekistan, but mind you a solid chunk of Persians (called Tajiks now) still live there.

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The word algebra comes from the title of a book called Al-Jabr, written around the year 820 by a Persian mathematician named Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad — and the word algorithm comes from the Latinized version of his name

By Space Daily Editorial Team

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Books about Algebra at PG:
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