Al-Khwarizmi
مُحَمَّد بْن مُوسَى الخَوَارِزْمِي
The father of algebra and algorithm
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was a 9th-century Persian mathematician, astronomer and scholar at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. His treatise Al-Kitab al-mukhtasar fi hisab al-jabr wal-muqabala introduced algebra to the world. The word "algorithm" is derived from the Latin form of his name.