The present-day province of Khwãrezm sits along the borders of modern-day Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, bordered by the shrinking Aral Sea, and fed by the plentiful waters of the Amu Dariya river. A ...

Al Khwarizmi’s contributions to mathematics and astronomy haven’t gone unnoticed. A crater on the Moon is named after him Although Babylonians invented algebra and Greek and Hindu mathematicians ...

Origins is a monthly column, where we will be talking about the history of various innovative technologies that we take for granted today. By definition, an algorithm is a pre-defined, self-contained ...

Every time we use our smartphones or computers, we encounter the legacy of Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi. This remarkable Uzbek scholar laid the foundations for modern technology to thrive—from the ...