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OpenStudy (anonymous):
What is Algebra?
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OpenStudy (anonymous):
One good take is this: http://profkeithdevlin.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/what-is-algebra/ Yours?
Directrix (directrix):
Some would facetiously respond with "Algebra is the science of finding x."
OpenStudy (anonymous):
1550s, from M.L. algebra, from Arabic al jebr "reunion of broken parts," as in computation, used 9c. by Baghdad mathematician Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi as the title of his famous treatise on equations ("Kitab al-Jabr w'al-Muqabala" "Rules of Reintegration and Reduction"), which also introduced Arabic numerals to the West. The accent shifted 17c. from second syllable to first. The word was used in English 15c.-16c. to mean "bone-setting," probably from Arab medical men in Spain.
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Reunion of the broken parts
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