Assignment 1: Pedogogy of School Subject

Presented by: Shailja Kandia

Roll No: 30

Class: S.Y.B.Ed.

Teacher In-charge: Angelina Nunes

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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer and a scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, also known as as the Grand Library of Baghdad.

He was born in Persia (country in the Middle East) of that time around 780.

His name means 'the native of Khwarazm’, a region that was part of Greater Iran, and is now part of Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Al-Khwārizmī accomplished most of his work between 813 and 833. After the Muslim conquest of Persia, Baghdad had become the centre of scientific studies and trade, and many merchants and scientists from as far as China and India traveled there, as did al-Khwarizmi.

Al-Khwarizmi was one of the learned men who worked in the House of Wisdom. Al-Khwarizmi flourished while working as a member of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad under the leadership of Kalif al-Mamun, the son of the Khalif Harun al-Rashid, who was made famous in the Arabian Nights. The House of Wisdom was a scientific research and teaching center.

Statue of al-Khwarizmi in front of the Faculty of Mathematics of Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran, IRAN

Notable works

•The Compendious Book on Calculation by

Completion and Balancing

• Book of the Description of the Earth

• Astronomical tables of Siddhanta

(Zij al-Sindhind)

•Kitab surat al-ard ("The Image of the Earth”)

Title page of an Arabic manuscript copy of

al-Khwarizmi’s Kitab

al-jabr wa-‘l-muqabala

Al-Khwarizmi’s algebra is regarded as the foundation and cornerstone of the sciences. To al-Khwarizmi we owe the world “algebra,” from the title of his greatest mathematical work, Hisab al-Jabr wa-al-Muqabala, in which he introduced the fundamental algebraic methods and techniques for solving equations.

Al-Khwarizmi is usually credited with the development of lattice (or sieve) multiplication method of multiplying large numbers, a method algorithmically equivalent to long multiplication.

His book is considered the foundational text of modern algebra, although he did not employ the kind of algebraic notation used today (he used words to explain the problem, and diagrams to solve it). But the book provided an exhaustive account of solving polynomial equations up to the second degree, and introduced for the first time the fundamental algebraic methods of “reduction” (rewriting an expression in a simpler form), “completion” (moving a negative quantity from one side of the equation to the other side and changing its sign) and “balancing” (subtraction of the same quantity from both sides of an equation, & the cancellation of like terms on opposite sides).

Al-Khwarizmi's Algebra also consists of applications and worked examples. He then goes on to look at rules for finding the area of figures such as the circle and also finding the volume of solids such as the sphere, cone, and pyramid.

Al-Khwarizmi developed the concept of the algorithm in mathematics (which is a reason for his being called the grandfather of computer science by some people). The word “algorithm” is derived from the Latinization of his name.

‘On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals’ written about 820, was principally responsible for spreading the Hindu–Arabic numeral system throughout the Middle East and Europe.

Today, people use algorithms to do addition and long division, principles that are found in Al-Khwarizmi’s text written about 1200 years ago.

Al-Khwarizmi was also responsible for introducing the Arabic numbers to the West, setting in motion a process that led to the use of the nine Arabic numerals, together with the zero sign.

Al-Khwarizmi's book on arithmetic synthesized Greek and Hindu knowledge and also contained his own fundamental contribution to mathematics and science including an explanation of the use of zero.

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Assignment 1: Pedogogy of School Subject

Presented by: Shailja Kandia

Roll No: 30

Class: S.Y.B.Ed.

Teacher In-charge: Angelina Nunes

Preview audio:

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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer and a scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, also known as as the Grand Library of Baghdad.

He was born in Persia (country in the Middle East) of that time around 780.

His name means 'the native of Khwarazm’, a region that was part of Greater Iran, and is now part of Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

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"Great Mathematician Al Khwarizmi"

SHAILJA KANODIA

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the life and contributions of Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, a Persian mathematician and scholar. It covers his work in mathematics, astronomy, geography, and more.

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