who invented the number zero?

Answer 1

several societies came up with the concept independently

Answer 2

This Hindu-Arabic system of representing numbers made its way into Europe by various means. There are traces of it as early as 976 AD in Spain. The person who deserves the credit though for introducing the system into Europe is Leonardo of Pisa, better know as Fibonacci, who wrote a popular text, Liber Abaci, in 1202. This text introduced Europeans to much of the mathematics preserved or developed by the Arabs, and in particular, to the Hindu-Arabic number representation system.

The word "ciphra" also evolved to signify the whole decimal positional number system. To this day integers are referred to as "cyphers" in English, though the usage is not common in American. With "ciphra" taking on a new more general meaning, a word derived from it, the Medieval Latin "zephirum" or "zepharino", came to be used to denote zero. This word eventually entered English as "zero

Answer 3

Zero was invented by Aryabhatta. The zero is the mathematically defined numerical function of nothingness that is used not for an evasion but for an apprehension of reality.

Answer 4

The Mayans developed the concept of zero, as well as the Ancient Indians and Babylonians.

Answer 5

The Babylonians have the first recorded symbol for zero that historians are aware of. Great article listed in my source link

Answer 6

A programme on BBC Tv recently, credited the Babylonians

Answer 7

thought it was the greek. but was wrong

The word zero comes ultimately from the Arabic ṣifr (صفر) meaning empty or vacant, a literal translation of the Indian Sanskrit śūnya meaning void or empty.

Answer 8

No one person is responsible for inventing numbers....they started by dropping rocks for their jobs...long story...I guess whoever invented 1-???

Answer 9

the Mayans because they perfected the concept of zero

Answer 10

Darth Vader.