Well who knew? The word 'algorithm' has its roots in a mangled Latinizing of the name of Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Khwarizmi (780-850 AD) who lived near Khiva, where I arrived this morning, and whose book Algebra,
on equations solvable through radicals, gave its name to the field.
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