Al-Khwārizmī’s Writes Concerning the Hindu Art of Reckoning

The Persian Al-Khwārizmī's Concerning the Hindu Art of Reckoning introduced zero, the decimal system and Hindu numerals to the Islamic and European world from India. Preserved only in its Latin translation, the text was likely based on Arabic translations of the Indian mathematician Brahmagupta’s work. Al-Khwārizmī’s name, Algoritmi in Latin, later led to the term “algorithm" when the text reached European readers through twelfth-century Latin translations.

It was also during this time of the Abbasid Caliphate, considered a “golden age,” that Islamic tiling and other abstract geometric forms flourished.