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we discovered some algebra implicitly necessary for the Egyptians to do elementary computations. In our discussions of multiplication and division, we discussed how the Egyptians knew the unique decomposition of each integer as sums of powers of 2.
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Modern Algebra has come into existence much more recently, emerging over the past 200 years.
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comes from the treatise written in the year 830 by the medieval Persian mathematician
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The history in algebra goes way back more than 400 years
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The history it started with people wanting to find new ways to solve math and to make math easier
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The word “Algebra” literally means the re-union of broken parts based on the origins of Arabic language. It was first used around 800 AD by Arabic scholars, and is still in our language today.
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Albert Einstein
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This is similar to the idea of graphing two linear equations to see where they intersect rather than directly solving for the solution. The Chinese began to publish their own algebra writings around 100 BC.