Al Khwarizmi

Al Khwarizmi — is the great Central Asian scientist, which works have scarred in the history of a science. In IX century, at the beginning of blossoming of medieval east mathematics, he brought the important contribution to arithmetic and algebra development. He has great merits in astronomy and mathematical geography. For some centuries works of Al Khwarizmi has had strong impact on scientists of the East and the West and for a long time served as the sample at a writing of textbooks by mathematics.

In some medieval sources he is named like "Al-Madzhusi", it means the magician. From this we can conclude that his ancestors were magicians — priests of zaroostriyskoy religion, witch was widespread in the Central Asian states before Islam occurrence.

The native land of the scientist Al Khwarizmi — is city Khoresm, extensive area of Central Asia.

We have a few data about the sciences of the ancient time, and about a level of development of these sciences. But as the history of scientific thought is in indissoluble communication with economic, social and cultural history of a society, it is possible not to doubt that already in the ancient time in Khoresm the exact sciences were generated. All these achievements in the field of an economic life were not possible without certain knowledge of the mathematic, astronomy and etc.

In the beginning of VIII century Central Asia, and Khoresm, has been grasped by the Arabian armies. The War bore with itself many destructions and victims. Conquerors, aspiring to introduce new religion — Islam, eradicated everything that has been connected with the religious extended in Central Asia before Islam period. Also culture and science monuments have been undergone to destruction.

However the cultural traditions which have been developed in Khoresm for many centuries ago have not been destroyed, with time wounds witch were putted by the wars gradually healed, and by IX century conditions of a new lifting of a spiritual...