Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Equations (in seven tongues) and al-Khwarizmi are the stars of Tower of Babel Episode 8. 

Note from our historian: as Yassine says, al-Khwarizmi gave his name to the word 'algorithm', but the use of an algorithm to solve what we now call quadratic equations dates back to the Mesopotamians c1800 BC.

#maths #arabic