Historical Site

Al-Korezmi

Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī

Khorezm • Uzbekistan • 100 m

Statue of the 9th-century mathematician, astronomer and geographer Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, whose nisba (identifying him as from Khwarazm) was Latinized as Algoritmi, and gave also his name to the region of Khiva