Al-Khwarizmi didn’t in any way originate, invent or create the algorithm

Somebody called Ihtesham Ali, with 29.5k followers on Twitter, posted an approximately nine hundred word hymn of praise for the Islamic mathematician, astronomer and geographer, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, or simply al-Khwarizmi (c.780–c. 850), in which he goes totally over the top in his description of his impact, in particular on computer science. Unfortunately, the core of what he writes is quite simply totally and horribly false. Although, his misconceptions are extreme, in core they are fairly widespread and I have decided to address them here. A stamp issued 6 September 1983 in the USSR, to celebrate roughly 1200 years since al-Khwārizmī’s birth Source: Wikimedia Commons A Persian scholar finished a single math book in 9th century Baghdad that quietly became the foundation for every line of code running on Earth today. I started reading about him at midnight and could not believe how many things in my daily life trace back to one man. His name was Muhammad ibn Musa…