Here is a starting point for you  to reach your own conclusions

http://www.algebra.com/algebra/about/history/

I don’t know who the father is but Melody is one of the Mothers :)

i dont know who

but one thing: im not the father of anything math related, and im glad im not

im the noob of algebra. mind giving me some pointers? you know that once i was indestructable at the age of 8, my father took me out of school and took me instead to a superhero training school (and there they didnt teach math), so pretty much im the noob of algebra

Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi