Who invented algebra, Arabs or Indians?

A Persian man named Muhammad ibn Musa Al Khwarizmi Invented Algebra. He wrote his work in the Book “Hisab Al-Jabr”, from which algebra got his name. He is the Father of Algebra. read more

Maybe this fallacy is due to the fact that “algebra” is a word of Arabic origin, but historical questions are not solved by etymological answers. Yes, the English word “algebra” derives from the Arabic. So does “sugar” (from the Arabic “sukkar”) but that doesn’t mean that Muslims invented sugar. read more

Symbolic algebra If by Algebra you mean symbolic algebra that has signs for the arithmetic operations and for equality, and symbols for variables, that was created in the 1500s and continued to be standardized in the 1600s. No one person invented that. read more