A quote from the book "A History of Abstract Algebra" by Israel Kleiner:
Islamic mathematicians attained important algebraic accomplishments between the ninth and fifteenth centuries AD. Perhaps the foremost among them was Muhammad ibn-Musa al-Khwarizmi, dubbed by some "the Euclid of agebra" because he systematized the subject and made it into an independent field of study. He did this in his book al-jabr w al-muqabalah.
A small game: the book says that the words "Algebra" and "Algorithm" are derived from two words in the quoted paragraph. Can you find them?
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