It was this work that Muhammad ibn-Musa al-Khwarizmi in the 9th century was to expand on so successfully. Khwarizmi became known as “the father of algebra” and gave his name to algorithms. The same ...
(NEXSTAR) – Aside from fancy timepieces and the occasional film franchise, Roman numerals are rarely used over Arabic numbers in modern American culture. Of course, there’s one other major exception: ...