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Persian polymath (c. 780 – c.

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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi^{[note 1]} (Persian: محمد بن موسى خوارزمی; c. 780 – c. 850), or simply al-Khwarizmi, was a Persian^[6]polymath who produced vastly influential Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography.

Around 820 CE, he worked at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, the contemporary capital city of the Abbasid Caliphate.

His popularizing treatise on algebra, compiled between 813–833 as Al-Jabr (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing),^[7]: 171 presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations.

One of his achievements in algebra was his demonstration of how to solve quadratic equations by completing the square, for which he provided geometric justifications.^[8]: 14 Because al-Khwarizmi was the first perso Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi - Biography, Facts and Pictures WOFI