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[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't algebra just an Englishized Arabic for "the math?"

[–] Damage@feddit.it 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

From this dude's wiki page:

His popularizing treatise on algebra, compiled between 813–33 as Al-Jabr (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing), [...] The English term algebra comes from the short-hand title of his aforementioned treatise (الجبر Al-Jabr, transl. "completion" or "rejoining").

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Oh okay, there we go. Thanks.