Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Origin of word Algebra

Algebra is the part of mathematics . It deals with variants x,y, z sometimes a, b, c etc. The ultimate goal is to find the value of the variant.
Algebra , the word seems like having Arabic origin. It is the Latin form of the Arabic word Al - Jabr. 
The word is derived from  title of a Arabic book.
In Arabic, Al means the. Jabr means equation.
Hence, we can say that Algebra means balancing the equation.