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Al-Khowarizmi (c. 780-850)
An Arabic mathematician, born in Baghdad, who is widely considered to be the founder of modern day algebra. He believed that any mathematical problem, no matter how dificult, could be solved if broken down into a series of smaller steps. The word algorithm may have derived from his name.
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