Algorithms: Threat or Menace?
Language Log 2016-10-30
Summary:
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (see also here) … was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and geographer during the Abbasid Caliphate, a scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. In the 12th century, Latin translations of his work on the Indian numerals introduced the decimal positional number system to the Western world. Al-Khwārizmī's The Compendious Book on […]