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Babylonians invented algebra in c.1900bce, ~2500years before Muhammad existed. https://archive.org/details/concisehistoryof0000stru_m6j1 Ancient Egyptians c.1650bce and Ancient Greeks c.430bce expanded on the work of Babylonians. https://archive.org/details/historyofmathema00boye China, 600bce, and India, 400bce, both worked on algebra before the first Muslim contribution 820ce. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi
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