who invented the number Zero?

Answer 1

Once upon a time there was no zero. Of course people knew if they had nothing, but there was no mathematical notation for it. Zero was independently invented only three times.

The first recorded zero is attributed to the Babylonians in the 3rd century BC. A long period followed when no one else used a zero place holder. But then the Mayans, halfway around the world in Central America, independently invented zero in the fourth century CE. The final independent invention of zero in India was long debated by scholars, but seems to be set around the middle of the fifth century. It spread to Cambodia around the end of the 7th century. From India it moved into China and then to the Islamic countries. Zero finally reached western Europe in the 12th century.

Answer 2

It depends on which Zero you are talking about. There is zero meaning non. But then there is factorial zero written 0!. This zero's physical meaning is different from that of the first one because mathematically 0!=1. The third zero comes in this: 0/0 = infinity. This answer mathematically implies that the numerator zero is not equal to the denominator zero otherwise the answer would be 1. So actually 3 zeros exist and the one my colleagues have referred to as having been invented by "Aryabhatta" only refers to the first one.

For the other two, I am not sure.

WL Zambia

Answer 3

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Answer 4

From Wikipedia:

History of zero
The late Olmec people of south-central Mexico began to use a zero digit (a shell glyph) in the New World possibly by the 4th century BC but certainly by 40 BC, within a vigesimal (base-20) positional numeral system. It became an integral part of Maya numerals, but did not influence Old World numeral systems.

By 130, Ptolemy, influenced by Hipparchus and the Babylonians, was using a symbol for zero (a small circle with a long overbar) within a sexagesimal numeral system otherwise using alphabetic Greek numerals. Because it was used alone, not just as a placeholder, this Hellenistic zero was perhaps the first documented use of a number zero in the Old World. However, the positions were usually limited to the fractional part of a number (called minutes, seconds, thirds, fourths, etc.)—they were not used for the integral part of a number. In later Byzantine manuscripts of his Syntaxis Mathematica (Almagest), the Hellenistic zero had morphed into the Greek letter omicron (otherwise meaning 70).

Another zero was used in tables alongside Roman numerals by 525 (first known use by Dionysius Exiguus), but as a word, nulla meaning nothing, not as a symbol. When division produced zero as a remainder, nihil, also meaning nothing, was used. These medieval zeros were used by all future medieval computists (calculators of Easter). An isolated use of their initial, N, was used in a table of Roman numerals by Bede or a colleague about 725, a zero symbol.

In 498, Indian mathematician and astronomer Aryabhata stated that "Stanam stanam dasa gunam" or place to place in ten times in value, which may be the origin of the modern decimal based place value notation; his positional number system included a zero in his letter code for numerals (which allowed him to express numbers as words) in his mathematical astronomy text Aryabhatiya.[5] In the Bakhshali Manuscript, whose date is uncertain but which is believed by some scholars to pre-date Aryabhata, zero is symbolized and used as a number; if the early dating is accepted, it would also predate Brahmagupta.

The first unambiguous use of a decimal zero and the rules governing its use appear in Brahmagupta's Brahmasphuta Siddhanta, along with consideration of negative numbers and the algebraic rules discussed below. By the 7th century, when Brahmagupta lived, some concept of zero had clearly reached Cambodia, and documentation shows the idea later spreading to China and the Islamic world.

Answer 5

0 (number), a number, glyph, and Hindu-Arabic or Indian numeral.
The "zero function", the constant function whose value is zero, for every element in its domain.
The slashed zero glyph used to distinguish the number '0' from the letter 'O' on character displays in mainframe and early personal computing (not to be confused with Danish letter Ø).
A root of a function is also known as a zero of the function.
Zero (complex analysis) - is a root of a holomorphic function

Answer 6

An unknown Mayan scholar is believed to be the first to create a character representing the concept of zero value.

Answer 7

Al Gore claimed to invent "zero".

Answer 8

Al Gore

Answer 9

The Greeks

Answer 10

Are u an Indian? I dont think so. Coz every child, at least from the age of 10, knows the answer. It's "Aryabhatta". Now dont tell the world that you are under 10.