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Updated: May 9, 2025

Algebra, or universal arithmetic the method of calculating indeterminate quantities, or investigating the relations that subsist among quantities of all kinds, whether arithmetical or geometrical was developed from the germ that Diophantus had left. Mohammed Ben Musa furnished the solution of quadratic equations, Omar Ben Ibra him that of cubic equations.

John William Draper - History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science