Birth Of Algebra

 

Birth Of Algebra

The new age mathematical procedures called algebra evolved over the ancient period, with benefactions by the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, and Greeks, and subsequently by the Hindus and Arabs. still, the use of letters to represent quantities that characterizes modern algebra was developed in the 16th century.

What we know of the initial systems is relatively limited, but it appears that the Egyptians and Babylonians worded what we'd regard as algebra problems with words rather than with symbols. The Greek mathematician Diophantus, who lived in about A.D. 350, introduced what is known as the syncopated style of algebra, with equations, rather than rhetorical or geometrical descriptions of the problems.

The word algebra comes from the Arabic word al- jabr in the title of a work written in about A.D. 830 by Mohammed ibn- Musa al- Khowarizmi, Hisab al- jabr w ’ al muqabala. The word algorithm derives from a corruption of the author’s name. A Latin paraphrase of al- Khowarizmi’s work appeared in the 12th century in Europe, stimulating Benefactions and the advancement of mathematical studies there.

Algebra as a mathematical methodology continued to evolve, with 16thcentury benefactions by Italian mathematicians Scipione del Ferro, Niccolò( Fontana) Tartaglia, and Girolamo Cardano. François Viète (1540 – 1603), a French Huguenot nobleman, is reputed to be the first mathematician to substitute letters for known and unknown amounts, giving algebra its present-day look, and he's sometimes regarded as the Father of Algebra. He was the first mathematician to use the cosine law for triangles, and he also published the law of tangents. Viète was interested in cosmology and also served as a cryptanalyst for Henry IV of France, applying his mathematical proficiency in extremely practical fashion.

Algebra continued to evolve over the coming centuries. In 1637 René Descartes( 1596 – 1650) published La Geométrie. Book III of that work actually significant resembles a modern algebra manual.