Mohammad al Khwarizmi's treatise on Algebra (the word comes from the title of the treatise) was written in plain Arabic prose. No notation at all. It takes a g

Mohammad al Khwarizmi's treatise on Algebra (the word comes from the title of the treatise) was written in plain Arabic prose. No notation at all. It takes a good amount of intelligence to read it, and it took an amazing genius to write it. But put it in plain notation, and it's a collection of 7th grade algebra problems. Notation is important.