Address by Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of the celebration of the 1,200th anniversary of the birth of the mathematician Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad Ibn Musa Al Khwarizmi; Moscow, 6 September 1983
Speech paying tribute to Al Khwarizmi, the founder of algebra, whose mathematical treatise seems to be the first known work to expound the system of positional notation and to explain the kind of mathematical operations that can be performed with it
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| Format: | programme and meeting document biblioteca |
| Language: | eng ara rus |
| Subjects: | Scientists, Mathematics, Anniversary celebrations, History of science, Algorithms, Algebra, Arabic, Al-Khwarizmi, Abu Abdallah Mohammed ibn Ahmed ibn Al-Katib, |
| Online Access: | https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000056440 |
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