In 1903, Marie and Pierre Curie were awarded half the Nobel Prize in Physics. The citation was, in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel..
Elementary algebra is the most basic form of algebra. 1  It is taught to students who are presumed to have no knowledge of mathematics beyond the basic principles of arithmetic. In arithmetic, only numbers and their arithmetical operations (such as +, â, Ã, Ã·) occur.
His introduction of the Indian concept of zero, along with the other nine digits, meant that mathematicians could express any number. Algebra was a method for moving terms from one side of an equation to the other to find the value of an unknown. He also described how to find the square root of a number, and was the first to demonstrate the concept of exponents for unknown variables.