Quaid, Libby September 22, 2008 | Educational Studies in Mathematics Springer Netherlands 66 2 : 185—201 [192] |
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Katz, Bill Barton; Barton, Bill October 2007 |
Boyer 1991, "The Arabic Hegemony" p | 229 "It is not certain just what the terms al-jabr and muqabalah mean, but the usual interpretation is similar to that implied in the translation above |
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"[Kids misplaced in algebra ]" Report | His successor al-Karkhi evidently used this translation to become an Arabic disciple of Diophantus — but without Diophantine analysis! -Arlington Adopts New Way to Tackle Algebra ]" |
The idea of generality is implied in al-Khwarizmi's exposition, but he had no scheme for expressing algebraically the general propositions that are so readily available in geometry.
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