Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī

Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī was a Persian Shi'a Muslim mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and geographer. He was born around 780 in Khwārizm (now Khiva, Uzbekistan) and died around 850. He worked most of his life as a scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.

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