It was this work that Muhammad ibn-Musa al-Khwarizmi in the 9th century was to expand on so successfully. Khwarizmi became known as “the father of algebra” and gave his name to algorithms. The same ...

Have you ever carefully noticed the digits we use every day - 1, 2, 3, and so on? Have you asked yourself where they came from? Most people think, since we refer to them as "Arabic numerals," that ...

Kuwait is perhaps considered one of the very few countries in the world that uses two methods in numbering its correspondence, street numbers, vehicle plates, and other uses, depending on the policy ...

Karl Mischke … in discussing the origin of the Arabic numerals, points out that the Roman numerals from 1 to 10 originated from the primitive custom of reckoning on the fingers of the two hands, and ...