• @[email protected]
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    352 months ago

    From this dude’s wiki page:

    His popularizing treatise on algebra, compiled between 813–33 as Al-Jabr (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing), […] The English term algebra comes from the short-hand title of his aforementioned treatise (الجبر Al-Jabr, transl. “completion” or “rejoining”).

    • @Etterra
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      12 months ago

      Oh okay, there we go. Thanks.