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Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, or simply al-Khwarizmi was a mathematician active during the Islamic Golden Age, who produced Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. Around 820, he worked at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, the contemporary capital city of the Abbasid Caliphate. One of the most prominent scholars of the period, his works were widely influential on later authors, both in the Islamic world and Europe.

science · Islamic mathematician (c. 780 – c. 850) · mathematician · astronomer · geographer · philosopher · translator · historian · also Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, Al-Khwarizmi, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, Al-Khwārizmī, Al-Khwârizmî, al-Khwarizmi

Born 0750 · Died 0846 · Q9038