Xref: utzoo soc.history:3479 sci.math:15396 sci.chem:3226 sci.bio:4502 rec.music.classical:19996 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!handel.Eng.Sun.COM!smortaz From: smortaz@handel.Eng.Sun.COM (Shahrokh Mortazavi) 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: <8677@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 26 Feb 91 21:57:01 GMT References: Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Followup-To: soc.history Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca. Lines: 36 > >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 That's what I remember reading about him. He was one of those jack of all trades characters. hey, if people are nominating themselves because they are studying physics and can are taking piano lessons too, i think Al is entitled too! >didn't post the names of any works on/of music that he wrote...) Im afraid i cant name any of his works. not many can from somebody who lived in 800 AD. > >> 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. you could be right. i employed trasitive clousre: alkharzmi -> algorithm - - -> algol i should have said the name algol is partly based on algorithm which comes from alkharazmi's name... > >(Also, I'm not sure he was Persian: he came from Khwarizm in central Asia, >and wrote in Arabic.) back in 800 AD all that area was known as the persian empire... most scientists nowadays write in english. that doesnt make them english. back in 800 AD, most scientists of the area wrote in arabic, it being the richest languages for such use.