Dear Algebra, please stop
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soc.history.medieval on Tue Aug 6 12:17:17 2024
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Dear Algebra, please stop asking us to find
your X.
She's never coming back, and don't ask Y.
Meanwhile,
The word algebra comes from the Arabic term +o+a+4+?+# (al-jabr), which originally referred to the surgical treatment of bonesetting.[c] In the
9th century, the term received a mathematical meaning when the Persian mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi employed it to describe a
method of solving equations and used it as the title of a treatise on
algebra, also known by the name The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing. The word entered the English language in the
16th century from Italian, Spanish, and medieval Latin.[18] Initially,
its meaning was restricted to the theory of equations, that is, to the
art of manipulating polynomial equations in view of solving them. This
changed in the course of the 19th century[d] when the scope of algebra broadened to cover the study of diverse types of algebraic operations
and structures together with their underlying axioms.[21]
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