The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing
Arabic Mathematical treatise of Algebra From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arabic Mathematical treatise of Algebra From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing (Arabic: ٱلْكِتَاب ٱلْمُخْتَصَر فِي حِسَاب ٱلْجَبْر وَٱلْمُقَابَلَة, al-Kitāb al-Mukhtaṣar fī Ḥisāb al-Jabr wal-Muqābalah; Latin: Liber Algebræ et Almucabola), also known as Al-Jabr (ٱلْجَبْر), is a mathematical book on algebra written by Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī around 820 CE. Al-Jabr was important in the history of mathematics, the term "algebra" itself derived from Al-Jabr.
 title page, 9th century | |
| Author | Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi |
|---|---|
| Original title | كتاب المختصر في حساب الجبر والمقابلة |
| Country | Abbasid Caliphate |
| Language | Arabic |
| Subject | Algebra |
| Genre | Mathematics |
Original text | كتاب المختصر في حساب الجبر والمقابلة at Arabic Wikisource |
The book show ways of finding area and volume. These include approximations of pi (π), as 3 1/7, √10, and 62832/20000. This latter approximation, this equals 3.1416, which appeared in Āryabhaṭīya (499 CE).[1]
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