Algebra's Dad: Al-Khwarizmi or Diophantus?
Imagine yourself sitting in a boring class of mathematics in middle school. Ugh. The teacher rambles on and on. She’s talking about the history of algebra. Not very interesting, to most people, because that’s how you remember it. But to me, it’s fascinating. Then, she brings up something pretty cool. She says: “Some people believe that Al-Khwarizmi is the ‘father of algebra’ is, while others believe Diophantus is. It’s debatable students.” Hi everyone! You’re friendly neighborhood weekly debating blogger, Hibba is back and ready for action. I’d like to give a special shout-out to Lubna Murad for their FANTASTIC suggestion: Al-Khwarizmi or Diophantus? For those who are pretty young and don’t know what algebra is, and those who never really cared about math class, algebra is the part of mathematics in which letters and other general symbols are used to represent numbers and quantities in formulae and equations. And yes, formulae is the plural of formula. Not formulas. Here’...
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