Who originated algebra?

Answer 1

The word algebra originated from the title of the book ilm al-jabr w'almuqabala, a book written during the ninth century the an Arabian mathematician named al-Khworizimi. The original title was translated as the science of restoration and reduction, basically meaning transposing and combining similar terms of equations. Translated in Latin to al-jabr (the union of broken parts) led to the term we now refer to as Algebra. Algebra was brought from ancient Babylon, Egypt and India to Europe via Italy by the Arabs. * http://math.about.com/library/weekly/aa052003a.htm