The word 'algorithm' has its roots in _Latinizing_ the name of [Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Musa_al-Khwarizmi "en.wikipedia.org") in a first step to algorismus. So the [[Morpheme]] are unclear, but the name still carries a very interesting _[[We love stories|story]]_! One of Khwãrezm’s most famous residents was [Muhammad ibn Mūsa al-Khwarizmī](https://www.britannica.com/biography/al-Khwarizmi), an influential 9th century scholar, astronomer, geographer, and mathematician known especially for his contributions to the study of algebra. Indeed, the latinization of his name, which meant ‘the native of Khwãrezm’ in Persian, gave English the word algorithm. He wrote a book in Arabic about Hindu-Arabic numerals; the Latin translation of the book title was _Algoritmi de numero Indorum_ (in English _Al-Khwarizmi on the Hindu Art of Reckoning_). The Latin _algoritmi_ became algorithm in English, leaving us with a word now used to describe everything from the way Google searches the Web to how Facebook determines what articles appear in a news feed. [[David J. Malan]] has a [lecture on algorithms](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR6nycuZKlM).