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Al-Khwarizmi
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (محمد بن موسى الخوارزمي; ), often referred to as simply al-Khwarizmi, was a Persian polymath who produced vastly influential Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. Hailing from Khwarazm, he was appointed as the astronomer and head of the House of Wisdom in the city of Baghdad around 820 CE.
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