Algorithms have become integral to our lives. From social media apps to Netflix, algorithms learn your preferences and prioritise the content you are shown. Google Maps and artificial intelligence are nothing without algorithms.
So, we've all heard of them, but where does the word "algorithm" even come from?
Over 1,000 years before the internet and smartphone apps, Persian scientist and polymath Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī invented the concept of algorithms.
In fact, the word itself comes from the Latinised version of his name, "algorithmi". And, as you might suspect, it's also related to algebra....<<<Read More>>>...
