author

al-Khwarizmi محمد بن موسى الخوارزمي

c. 780–850

Mathematician and astronomer in al-Ma'mun's Baghdad. Two common nouns descend from his output: algebra, from the title of his book on equations, and algorithm, from the Latin rendering of his name.

Works in the atlas

Algebra · al-Kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wa-l-muqābala

Crossings

c. 820 Brahmasphutasiddhanta , Arabic Arabic · author · Baghdad attested

Sources

Toomer, G. J. (1973). al-Khwarizmi.