Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī

Contents

• Contents
• 1Life
• 2Contributions
• 2.1Algebra
• 2.2Arithmetic
• 2.3Astronomy
• 2.4Trigonometry
• 2.5Geography
• 2.6Jewish calendar
• 2.7Other works
• 3See also
• 4Notes
• 5References
• 6Further reading
• 6.1Specific references
• 6.1.1Biographical
• 6.1.2Algebra
• 6.1.3Arithmetic
• 6.1.4Astronomy
• 6.1.5Spherical trigonometry
• 6.1.6Jewish calendar
• 6.1.7Geography
• 6.2General references

Few details of al-Khwārizmī's life are known with certainty. He was born into a Persian family[6] and Ibn al-Nadim gives his birthplace as Khwarezm in Central Asia.[24]

• Few details of al-Khwārizmī's life are known with certainty. He was born into a Persian family[6] and Ibn al-Nadim gives his birthplace as Khwarezm in Central Asia.[24]
• Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari gives his name as Muḥammad ibn Musá al-Khwārizmiyy al-Majūsiyy al-Quṭrubbaliyy (محمد بن موسى الخوارزميّ المجوسـيّ القطربّـليّ‎). The epithet al-Qutrubbulli could indicate he might instead have come from Qutrubbul (Qatrabbul),[25] a viticulture district near Baghdad. However, Rashed denies this:[26]
• There is no need to be an expert on the period or a philologist to see that al-Tabari's second citation should read "Muhammad ibn Mūsa al-Khwārizmī and al-Majūsi al-Qutrubbulli," and that there are two people (al-Khwārizmī and al-Majūsi al-Qutrubbulli) between whom the letter wa [Arabic 'و‎' for the conjunction 'and'] has been omitted in an early copy. This would not be worth mentioning if a series of errors concerning the personality of al-Khwārizmī, occasionally even the origins of his knowledge,