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When did algebra get its name?

Updated: 4/28/2022
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Algebra comes from the Arabic word al-jabr, which appeared in the title of a book Hidab al-jabr wal muqubala (roughly translated as The book of restoration and cancellation".

This was written in Baghdad in the early 9th Century by the mathematician Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khowarizmi.

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