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Algebra is more than 4000 years old.
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Ancient Babylon and Egypt are the two places that were at the center of the development of algebra.
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The Hellenistic (Greek) mathematician Diophantus used algebra for similar reasons, but he was much more interested in exact solutions than the Babylonians, who tended to use approximations. In the centuries since ancient Greeks and Babylonians, we have used algebra to solve a great many problems in a wide variety of subjects in science and engineering.
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Al Khwarizmi developed equations for balancing and reducing algebraic equations and introduced algorithms.
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The Egyptians used measurements for math to measure things.
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The Ancient Greeks didn't have algebra but geometric algebra is what they used.
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In the middle east, there were many developments from mathematicians who have had a huge impact on how we see and use algebra today.
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Michael Stifel wrote a comprehensive study on arithmetic and algebra.
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Algebra is a branch of math where you use letters.
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Diophantus invented algebra and he was a greek mathematician.
