Algorithm
The word 'algorithm' has its roots in Latinizing the name of Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi in a first step to "algorismus". Al-Khwārizmī (, , c. 780–850) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, geographer, and scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, whose name means 'the native of Khwarezm', a region that was part of Greater Iran and is now in Uzbekistan.
Logistics
The term "" is attested in English from 1846, and is from , where it was either coined or popularized by military officer and writer Antoine-Henri Jomini, who defined it in his "Summary of the Art of War" (). The term appears in the 1830 edition, then titled "Analytic Table" ("Tableau Analytique"), and Jomini explains that it is derived from (cognate to English ), in the terms and :
The term is credited to Jomini, and the term and its etymology criticized by in 1832, writing:
Chambray also notes that the term was present in the "" as a synonym for algebra.