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Though the ancient Greeksand ancient Mesopotamians invented many new math and science studies, some ideas developed later
and in different places. The study of algebra, a field of mathematics that uses different letters and numbers to represent values, was
first created by the Islamic scholar Ibn al-Banna in the 13th century CE. By the 1700s, the German mathematician Gottfried
Leibniz was teaching algebra to his students in European schools.
