Now I Know WHY we Invaded Iraq and Bombed Baghdad!
Bush sucks at Algebra too!
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Word Origins: algebra
from Arabic
This word originated in Iraq
In about the year 830, Mohammad ibn-Musa al-Khwarizmi of Baghdad wrote a book with the Arabic title Hisab al-jabr w'al-muqabala, which may be translated as Science of the Reunion and the Opposition. The reunion, or al-jabar, became our algebra, which deals not so much with numbers themselves (that's arithmetic) but with relations among numbers, relations such as equation. The notion of algebra goes back to the Hindus; Al-Khwarizmi was the man who synthesized their knowledge for the Arabic, and in due course the European, world.
It was much later than the ninth century, of course, when the notion and the name of algebra reached the English language. Italian was the first of the European languages to use algebra, in 1202; English finally got it in 1551 in Robert Recorde's Pathway to Knowledge, which treats of "the rule of false position, with divers examples not only vulgar, but some appertaining to the rule of Algeber." During that century English was also using algebra to mean bonesetting, the "reunion" of bones, another meaning of the word that the Spanish had learned from the Arabs.
Al-Khwarizmi was so influential that has own name, warped a little in translation, also has became a European and an English word, algorithm (1699), which now means any mathematical procedure. Other words attesting to the importance of Arabic scholarship in mathematics and science include alchemy (1362), elixir (1386), zenith (1387), nadir (1391), and cipher (1399). The Arabic language has given several hundred significant words to English, including admiral (1205), syrup (1392), cotton (1400), crimson (1440), alcohol (1543), jasmine (1548), magazine (1583), monsoon (1584), sash (1590), hashish (1598), coffee (via Turkish, 1598), ghoul (1786), and of course Islam (1613).
Arabic, a member of the West Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, is one of the world's major languages. Like Spanish, French, and English, it has different national varieties in many countries, but there is also a common Standard Arabic, which is the language of schools. Throughout North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, there are now about two hundred million speakers of Arabic. Iraq deserves credit as the country of origin for algebra in honor of al-Khwarizmi's presence in Baghdad, a renowned center for scholars in his day.
Damn those Arabs and their hate mongering mathmatics!
From answers.com
Word Origins: algebra
from Arabic
This word originated in Iraq
In about the year 830, Mohammad ibn-Musa al-Khwarizmi of Baghdad wrote a book with the Arabic title Hisab al-jabr w'al-muqabala, which may be translated as Science of the Reunion and the Opposition. The reunion, or al-jabar, became our algebra, which deals not so much with numbers themselves (that's arithmetic) but with relations among numbers, relations such as equation. The notion of algebra goes back to the Hindus; Al-Khwarizmi was the man who synthesized their knowledge for the Arabic, and in due course the European, world.
It was much later than the ninth century, of course, when the notion and the name of algebra reached the English language. Italian was the first of the European languages to use algebra, in 1202; English finally got it in 1551 in Robert Recorde's Pathway to Knowledge, which treats of "the rule of false position, with divers examples not only vulgar, but some appertaining to the rule of Algeber." During that century English was also using algebra to mean bonesetting, the "reunion" of bones, another meaning of the word that the Spanish had learned from the Arabs.
Al-Khwarizmi was so influential that has own name, warped a little in translation, also has became a European and an English word, algorithm (1699), which now means any mathematical procedure. Other words attesting to the importance of Arabic scholarship in mathematics and science include alchemy (1362), elixir (1386), zenith (1387), nadir (1391), and cipher (1399). The Arabic language has given several hundred significant words to English, including admiral (1205), syrup (1392), cotton (1400), crimson (1440), alcohol (1543), jasmine (1548), magazine (1583), monsoon (1584), sash (1590), hashish (1598), coffee (via Turkish, 1598), ghoul (1786), and of course Islam (1613).
Arabic, a member of the West Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, is one of the world's major languages. Like Spanish, French, and English, it has different national varieties in many countries, but there is also a common Standard Arabic, which is the language of schools. Throughout North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, there are now about two hundred million speakers of Arabic. Iraq deserves credit as the country of origin for algebra in honor of al-Khwarizmi's presence in Baghdad, a renowned center for scholars in his day.
Damn those Arabs and their hate mongering mathmatics!