who invented zero (0) ?

Question

it is one of the gr8 nation
gandhi was born over here ?

where zero was invented

Answer 1

ramanujam

Answer 2

India invented the Number system. Aryabhatta invented 'zero'.

Proud to be Indian....

India invented the Number system. Aryabhatta invented 'zero'.

India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.

The world's first University was established in Takshashila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software.

Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.

Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty striken and underdeveloped through political corruption, India was once the richest empire on earth.

The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.

The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now known as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan's works dates to the 6th Century, which is long before the European mathematicians.

Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 1053.

According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.

USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.

The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.

Chess was invented in India.

Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India.

When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization).

The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.

Answer 3

it was invented in India. People used to just leave a gap before the existence of zero. To make it easier, they began circling the gap to highlight it - thus zero was born.

Answer 4

The question you raise is usually about who came up with "the CONCEPT of zero" --that is, the ability to use zero as a number in a mathematical system. This we owe to INDIAN mathematicians beginning about AD 600.
In particular, to the work of the Indian mathematicians Brahmagupta (7th century AD) --see http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Brahmagupta.html -- and later to Mahavira (8th c.) and Bhaskara (12th c)

"A history of Zero"
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Zero.html

(This, along with other features of their system, was then diffused to China, and to the Western world through Arab mathematicians... whence our "Arabic numerals".)

But the history of zero is a fitful one. There is some evidence that it was conceptualized earlier... but seemingly then forgotten.

At any rate, there are certainly ancient examples of a "place marker" zero. We find one among later Babylonian mathematicians (about 700 B.C.) and then the Greeks.



It has also been claimed that ancient Egyptians had an even earlier use of zero (as early as 2600 B.C. !?), though the author of this little article mistakenly confuses their possible use of some sort of zero place marker with the (numerical) CONCEPT of zero (a careless mistake, apparently driven by eagerness to prove that the 'Africans' had it first).

"The Ancient Egyptian Concept of Zero and the Egyptian Symbol for Zero: A Note on a Little Known African Achievement"
http://www.ethnomath.org/resources/ISGEm/084.htm

We also know that the Mayans had a "zero" that was operative in their "Classic Period" (AD 250-900). They used as a place holder. (As we saw above, others made this type of use of it earlier.)
http://everyschool.org/u/logan/culturalmath/zero.htm
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Mayan_mathematics.html

Also note that, whatever the Mayans or Egyptians may have done with zero died out before it spread to the rest of the world. Thus the discovery and use that has helped shape modern mathematics throughout the world is attributable to India (with an important assist from later Arabs/Muslims).

Answer 5

it is invented by indians and difficult to get exact person name..but imagine without zero there is no value to other numerical letters

Answer 6

zero was invented by gr8 land of leaders that is INDIA

Answer 7

Some Indian genius.

Answer 8

I have been told it was invented by old sages of vedic period in India

Answer 9

I DONT KNOW BUT ISNT 0 great? BIG fat 0

Answer 10

The Creator God of the world. Men just discovered the concept and then named it.
Hey Ho, Maggie.

Answer 11

india