With its roots in the Latinisation of the Persian mathematician Muhammad bin Musa Al-Khwārizmī as
algorimus, we were quite pleased to learn about the education, contributions and legacy of the scholar of
Baghdad’s House of Wisdom in the ninth century, in Greater Iran—presently Uzbekistan—whose the namesake for the unambiguous computational instructions that machines can act upon through
tributes by several local artists
hosted by a Tashkent gallery. Entitled
Dixit Algorizmi after the opening line of his comprehensive manuscript,
Thus Spake Al-Khwārizmī, there is much more to explore at the links above.
