Month: February 2016

In my previous post, I looked at the first two detailed examples provided by al-Khowarizmi in his compendium, the title of which gives us the word “algebr...

The word “algebra” comes to us from the title of a book, Hidab al-jabr wal-muqubala written by Abu Abdallah Mohammed ben Musa al-Khowarizmi (there a...

In my last post, I noted that it’s possible to create an isosceles trapezoid from four isosceles triangles, but I wasn’t sure if there was a way to ...

In this post, I’ll discuss two issues. First, I’ll look at a problem taken from a major textbook, and explain why the solution is wrong. Then, IR...