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      4 months ago

      From this dude’s wiki page:

      His popularizing treatise on algebra, compiled between 813–33 as Al-Jabr (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing), […] The English term algebra comes from the short-hand title of his aforementioned treatise (الجبر Al-Jabr, transl. “completion” or “rejoining”).