Xref: utzoo soc.history:3475 sci.math:15392 sci.chem:3223 sci.bio:4498 rec.music.classical:19989 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!purdue!haven!umd5!newton.cs.jhu.edu!ghouse From: ghouse@cs.jhu.edu (Mujtaba R. Ghouse) Newsgroups: soc.history,sci.math,sci.chem,sci.bio,rec.music.classical Subject: Re: Scientists and Mathematicians Who Wrote Music Keywords: did AlKhwarizmi write music? Message-ID: Date: 26 Feb 91 18:51:03 GMT Lines: 25 In article Message-ID: <8594@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> smortaz@handel.Eng.Sun.COM (Shahrokh Mortazavi) writes: >another one is Al Kharazmi (800 AD?), the great persian mathematician, chemist, >philosopher, writer, etc. who invented logarithms, But this thread is about scientists who were also musicians: did AlKhwarizmi write music? (I am asking, *not* flaming. I don't know the answer, and you didn't post the names of any works on/of music that he wrote...) > and after whom the language Algol was named ... Algol is an acronym for `ALGOrithmic Language'. Although the word `algorithm' comes from his name, Algol was not named after AlKhwarizmi directly. (Also, I'm not sure he was Persian: he came from Khwarizm in central Asia, and wrote in Arabic.) refs : Webster's ninth collegiate dictionary, `The Venture of Islam' by Marshall Hodgson, volume 1. -Mujtaba Ghouse "Somewhere else, the tea is getting cold. Come on Ace, we've got work to do!"