Development of Algebra(Baghdad and Europe)

Question 1

What is in Al Khowarazmi’s book Algebra Val Mugabele

Answer 1

Arabic-Indian numerals, no negative numbers, decimal expansion for fractions and irrationals, methods for solving first and second degree equations

Question 2

who solved cubics and when

Answer 2

Scipione del-ferro found a method and gave it to his student who challenged tartagalia to a competition thinking he wouldn’t be able to solve cubics but tartagalia had also found a method. Cardano eventually convinced tartagalia to show him the method and went on to publish it in Ars Magna with his student Ferrari along with a method for fourth degrees

Question 3

What did Rafael Bombelli do

Answer 3

he was the first to use imaginary numbers systematically and one of the first in Europe to perform operations with negative numbers