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OpenStudy (anonymous):

What is Algebra?

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.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Reunion of the broken parts

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