It's not terribly obscure: al-Khwārizmī (الخوارزمي‎), from whose name it derives, is also the source of the English word algebra, from his Al-jabr (الجبر) http

It's not terribly obscure: al-Khwārizmī (الخوارزمي‎), from whose name it derives, is also the source of the English word algebra, from his Al-jabr (الجبر) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Compendious_Book_on_Calculation_by_Completion_and_Balancing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Compendious_Book_on_Calcul...