Long before the “Islamic Golden Age” produced renowned mathematicians like Al-Khwarizmi—whom ofwhich learned from Vedic mathematics—the foundations of abstract mathematics were already thriving in the West.
The Vedic origins of Algebra
When Islamic scholars translated Indian texts into Arabic, including Brahmagupta’s works, they brought Beeja-Ganitham into the Arab world, where it was known as Al-jabr (from which the word "algebra" is derived)