The father of Algebra, Khwarizmi. Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī was a polymath, mathematician, and astronomer. Khwarizmi is of course one of the most influential academics that ever lived. His importance in relation to our organization is how his discoveries disrupted geo-academic structures all over the world. During the 8th century, Khwarizmi worked at the Bagdad House of Wisdom. The significance of this is that all his work would be translated into other languages. So his discoveries (of those including algebra, and algorithms, whose basic structures are used in technology today) not only propelled his own community but also allowed the other communities, in which he was a foreigner, to progress. In fact, his discoveries helped usher in the European Renaissance a few hundred years later.