An algorithm is simply a set of clear instructions for achieving some task. The Persian mathematician and astronomer Al-Khwarizmi1 was a scholar at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad who lived in the 8th...An algorithm is simply a set of clear instructions for achieving some task. The Persian mathematician and astronomer Al-Khwarizmi1 was a scholar at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad who lived in the 8th and 9th centuries A.D. He is remembered for his algebra treatise Hisab al-jabr w’al-muqabala from which we derive the very word “algebra,” and a text on the Hindu-Arabic numeration scheme.
