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A few of the first and best fathers of algebra were Abu Ja'far Muhammad Ibn Musa Al Khwarizmi and Diophantus. These fathers of algebra made major contributions to balancing and reducing algebraic equations and they introduced algorithms.
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During the 9th century, Al- Khwarizmi who is now considered a founding father of mathematics and he gathered many ideas from the Greek and Indians too come up with his own which was his contribution to the Hindu system which is the one, we use today.
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During the 9th century, the abacus was the first ever counting tool invented in China to help with math calculations and is now used as a baby toy.
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Leonardo Fibonacci participated in finding out how to solve cubic equations during the 13th century.
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Because of the introduction of symbols for the unknown, algebraic powers and operations. In the 16th century, Descartes work transitioned from geometric solutions to algebraic solutions.
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Maria Agnesi who lived from 1718 to 1799 was the first ever woman to be appointed the university professor of mathematics.
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Carl Gauss proved that every polynomial equations has at least one root for the answer.
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Charlotte Angus Scott was the first ever woman to be the head of a college math department.
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Throughout the years 1950-1980 three incredible black women who did years worth of calculations to risk John Glenn going up into space, which is now a real movie called Hidden Figures.
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John F. Nash was a mathematician who shared a Nobel for his work and greatly extended the reach and power of modern economic theory and whose long descent into severe mental illness and eventual recovery were the subject of a book and a film, both titled “A Beautiful Mind”.
