History | Ancient History on Instagram: "Al-Khwarizmi, a 9th-century Persian polymath working in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, is widely regarded as one of the foundational figures in mathematics, whose contributions helped shape algebra, arithmetic, and scientific thought for centuries to come. His seminal work Kitāb al-Jabr wa-l-Muqābala systematically presented methods for solving linear and quadratic equations, giving rise to the term “algebra” and marking one of the earliest attempts to t