Frederic Rosen

  • The Algebra of Mohammed Ben Musa-Frederic Rosen
    • The Algebra of Mohammed Ben Musa-Frederic Rosen

    • The Algebra of Mohammed Ben Musa-Frederic Rosen

    • The Algebra of Mohammed Ben Musa is Frederic Rosen's essential 1831 English translation of Al-Khwarizmi's foundational ninth-century Arabic text, Kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wa’l-muqābala (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing). This book introduced the systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations to the world, formally establishing algebra as an independent mathematical discipline. Rosen's work provided the…