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Stage 1 of 4
al-jabr
Arabic · c. 820
"reunion of broken parts"
from the title of al-Khwarizmi's treatise on equations
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Stage 2 of 4
algebra
Medieval Latin · c. 1100s
"the study of equations"
entered Europe through Latin translations made in Toledo
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Stage 3 of 4
algebra
Italian · c. 1400s
"the study of equations"
also kept a folk sense of "bone-setting" for a time
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Stage 4 of 4
algebra
English · c. 1550s
"the branch of mathematics using symbols for numbers"
adopted directly for the mathematical discipline
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