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Dr. Mohamed Amine Khamsi
 Adjunct Professor (KFUPM)

Professor (UTEP)

 

Department of Mathematics and Statistics
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
PO Box 411, Dhahran 31261
Saudi Arabia

 

e-mail: mkhamsi@kfupm.edu.sa
Tel: +966 (03) 860 7006
Fax: +966 (03) 860 2340

 

and

Department of Mathematical Science
University of Texas at El Paso
500 West University Ave

El Paso, Texas, 79968, USA.
 

e-mail: mohamed@utep.edu
Tel: +1 (915) 747 6763
Fax: +1 (915) 747 6502

 

 

 

 

 

......That fondness for science, ... that affability and condescension which God shows to the learned, that promptitude with which he protects and supports them in the elucidation of obscurities and in the removal of difficulties, has encouraged me to compose a short work on calculating by al-jabr and al- muqabala , confining it to what is easiest and most useful in arithmetic" [al-jabr means "restoring", referring to the process of moving a subtracted quantity to the other side of an equation; al-muqabala is "comparing" and refers to subtracting equal quantities from both sides of an equation].......
Musa Al-Khwarizmi (about 790-about 840)

KFUPM | College of Science  | Dept of Math & Stat