Saturday, October 04, 2008

Al-Khawarizmi

Introduction:

Once upon time, in an environment that is too primitive compared to where we live now, a man insisted to change the face of the world and to be not just a technology consumer nor a technology creator but more, a science creator for the whole world in one of the most sciences to be beneficial to the whole world.

Who

Al-Khawarizmi was a mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and geographer, he has a lo t of achievements that need multiple of post to mention, but I think its enough to know that this scientist or we can say collection of scientists is the first person to invent a systematic solution for linear and quadratic equations, simply he is the father of Algebra by his first book called "الجبر" in Arabic which was translated to English after that to be the well known basic mathematical science the Algebra taken from the Arabic book name of this great scientist.

Life

His full name is Al-Khwarizmi (Mohammad ebne Mūsā Khwārazmī محمد بن موسی خوارزمی) he lived most of his life in the city of world's civilization at this time Baghdad "بغداد" Baghdad at this time was one of the most civilized places all around the world, it was part of the Islamic Empire at this time that was encouraging sciences and scientist like the man we are talking about now.

Al-Khwarizmi and Computer Algorithms

You might be astonished a bit what is the relation between this scientist and computer algorithms, actually during my read for a book on computer algorithms, that is teaching the basic sciences of mathematical algorithms for addition and multiplication, I found the book author heavily stating the awesome easy algorithms that Al-Khwarizmi invented and it seems that Al-Khwarizmi took care of the Big O of the algorithms at this time.

I was astonished by his great science and great algorithms, so I decided to read more about this great scientist whom you can say changed the face of world, I tried to imagine the world without Algebra, I think it won't be like the one we are living now absolutely.

Links

Al-Khwarzmi in famous muslim scientists
Al-Khwarizmi in wikipedia

Thursday, February 22, 2007

It's all about examples, practice and apply

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As the famous Einstein said one day, “Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach”, i like this quote and for me it works, and day after day it become clear to me.

Practice and applying is the only way to master things, concepts and methodologies, even some people might claim that examples is a way to "help" people learn.

I got the message of that before i read Einstein quote, i was doing a small algorithm and it took from me some time, until i make a small example and retry to write the algorithm again, it was just few seconds.

A small advice, when you need to do or learn any thing use a small example, to illustrate this i will write you a small example :), Einstein made a lot of trials and examples before he reached his famous discoveries .

Sunday, February 04, 2007

7 Secrets to Success

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Don't let anything to luck

Reaching success isn't easy, at the same time isn't impossible, you need to know only how to achieve it, this article is great, it's not intended for business people only, i think it's secret of how to be successful in every portion of you life.

I recommend reading this article on entrepreneur.com/