The Quiz: Persian mathematician al-Khwārizmī is the father of what discipline?
Physics
Algebra
Statistics
Geometry
While the Persians didn’t create algebra, they are credited with fine-tuning this area of mathematics. Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī was a mathematician and astronomer born in 780 CE in Baghdad where he worked in the “House of Wisdom,” a Persian research facility. He made many new developments in the field — even the words “algorithm” and “algebra” came from the title of his books. He also introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals to the West.
The correct answer to this quiz is Algebra.