HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mathematics during the Golden Age of Islam, especially during the 9th and 10th centuries, was built on Greek mathematics (Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius) and Indian mathematics (Aryabhata, Brahmagupta).
Detailed explanation-2: -Al-Khwārizmī He popularized a number of mathematical concepts, including the use of Hindu-Arabic numbers and the number zero, algebra, and the use of geometry to demonstrate and prove algebraic results.
Detailed explanation-3: -Although the Arabic mathematicians are most famed for their work on algebra, number theory and number systems, they also made considerable contributions to geometry, trigonometry and mathematical astronomy.
Detailed explanation-4: -Islamic contributions to mathematics began around ad 825, when the Baghdad mathematician Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī wrote his famous treatise al-Kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wa’l-muqābala (translated into Latin in the 12th century as Algebra et Almucabal, from which the modern term algebra is derived).