How was zero invented?

Answer 1

Necessity is the mother of invention.
U know, zero was invented by ancient Indian mathematicians?
Serious.
Actually, that's the problem with us modern Indians :
Ancient Indians invented & used so many things... but the medieval Indians forgot 2 preserve copyrights.
LOL

Answer 2

Zero was invented by Sir C V Raman from India. It was invented as a numerical and having a value. Before Zero was invented the calculation was different. Every calculation ended in 9 and multiples of 9. You can check up with C V Raman Book on Zero. I have read it but donot remember the title of the Book.

(As this being a Knowledge based, I saw some of them giving wrong answers. Please donot do that if you donot know about it.)

Answer 3

In the year 130, Ptolemy, an astronomer and geographer, influenced by Hipparchus, (an astronomer, geographer, and mathematician) and the Babylonians (a people who lived in Ancinet Mesopotamia) was using a symbol for zero (a small circle with a long overbar). This was perhaps the first documented use of a number zero because it was both used alone and as a placeholder.

Answer 4

Zero was invented about 4,500 years ago when the slaves were
building the pyramids. They would keep track of their weekly salary
and at the end of the year the grand total would be equal to seroh,
seroh being ancient Arab word for nothing. The symbol 0 started
being used during conversations when the various slaves were
asked how they were doing financially at which point they would make a circle with their thumb and forefinger to demonstrate.
The phrase "Take this job and shove it" also started during this period.

Answer 5

Aryabhatta, an indian scientist invented the letter zero.Aryabhata (आर्यभट) Āryabhaṭa) (476 – 550) is the first of the great mathematician-astronomers of the classical age of India. He lived in Kusumapura, which his commentator Bhāskara I (629 AD) identifies with Pataliputra (modern Patna).
Aryabhata was the first in the line of brilliant mathematician-astronomers of classical India, whose major work was the Aryabhatiya. Not only did he help revolutionise mathematics, but also provided a heliocentric model of the universe much more advanced that the geocentric model of Ptolemy that had taken hold in Europe.

Among his main achievements was the development of notation in mathematics, which was and is remains hugely significant. His heliocentric model of the earth and planets was also very advanced, and argued for elliptical orbits of the planets around the sun.

Answer 6

There were math scientist who thought they didn't know what nothing that didn't have a number so they invented the number zero that shows nothing.

Answer 7

Read out this new book from Sidin Vadukut
The Sceptical Patriot : Exploring the Truths Behind the Zero and Other Indian Glories
It gives new fact about who explored zero.

Answer 8

This one has one of the most conflicting number of answers. All I can say is that it was invented in India and if you really wanna find out how, and exactly where check out the link.

Answer 9

The concept of zero is
surprisingly deep, and it took human thinkers quite a long time to come up
with the notion of zero. In fact, though mathematicians began thinking
about the concept of zero in 2000-1800 B.C.E., it was not until about 200-300
B.C.E. that the Babylonians began using a symbol that would evolve into
what we today know as zero.

It turns out that mathematicians first thought of zero in the
context of writing numbers down -- zero was first a placeholder. Before
mathematicians understood the notion of zero, there was much ambiguity
about written numbers. For instance, if the symbol for 5 was written down,
there was no way to tell what number was being expressed -- was it 5?
Or, 50? Or, 5,000,000? Thus, zero was introduced as a placeholder to avoid
these ambiguities.

In India, the concepts of 0 as a placeholder and 0 as a number were
associated with one another much earlier than in Babylon. It is from the
Indians that we get our present-day symbol for 0.

Answer 10

Well, as a side note, I know that in the original mathematics by the Arabs, 0 was not considered a number.
It was only after some time before it was introduced.