Who invented '0' in mathematics?

Answer 1

According to Prof. Homunculus answer to the question pertaining to the origin of the number zero (0) which is published in the website http://www.mathmojo.com/interestinglessons/originofzero/originofzero.html, he says that, the origin of zero is a nebulous subject.

Moreover, is his text, it stated that:

"The Babylonians were known to have used a space as a placeholder for empty "columns" as far back as 1700 BC.
Around 1400 years later, they developed the first known symbol to stand for an empty place. It looked something like YY.

It didn't actually stand for the number we know as "zero." It was never used alone. It was only a place holder. The Mayan culture developed a symbol for the number zero, probably independently of the Babylonians, sometime later. So did the Hindu culture.

The first records we have of the symbol we use for 0, is from Hindu writings from the late 9th century. There was no internet back then, but information still got around. Mostly by camelback, or foot, so it took awhile for 0 to migrate to Arab lands, (probably due to commerce).

Eventually, about 400 years after South Asia and Asia Minor had been using 0 and inventing and discovering math concepts the we in the west couldn't even consider (because we were busy being "religiously enlightened" and culturally superior) 0 finally got to the civilized world."

Furthermore, Professor Hossein Arsham said that the introduction of zero into the decimal system in the 13th century was the most significant achievement in the development of a number system, in which calculation with large numbers became feasible. Without this notion, the descriptive and prescriptive modeling processes in commerce, astronomy, physics, chemistry, and industry would have been unthinkable.

Answer 2

Great Indian scientist Aryabhatta invented '0' in mathematics,

Answer 3

Indians invented the 0 zero not Arabians or Romans. roman wrote history about maths and they named that AL.BERUNI had invented 0 zero. actually one time Arabians came to India they looked how Indians are solving fast mathematics problems they tooked 0 concept to Arabia one day Romans came to Arabia they looked wow Arabians are doing calculations very easily how? romans ohh 0 zero and they started writing books on it that Al Beruni invented 0 zero.

Answer 4

The word zero comes through the Arabic literal translation of the Sanskrit śūnya, meaning void or empty, into ṣifr (صفر) meaning empty or vacant. Through transliteration this became zephyr or zephyrus in Latin. The word zephyrus already meant "west wind" in Latin; the proper noun Zephyrus was the Roman god of the west wind (after the Greek god Zephyros). With its new use for the concept of zero, zephyr came to mean a light breeze—"an almost nothing."[1] The word zephyr survives with this meaning in English today. The Italian mathematician Fibonacci (c.1170-1250), who grew up in Arab North Africa and is credited with introducing the Hindu decimal system to Europe, used the term zephyrum. This became zefiro in Italian, which was contracted to zero in the Venetian dialect, giving the modern English word.

As the Hindu decimal zero and its new mathematics spread from the Arab world to Europe in the Middle Ages, words derived from sifr and zephyrus came to refer to calculation, as well as to privileged knowledge and secret codes. According to Ifrah, "in thirteenth-century Paris, a 'worthless fellow' was called a... cifre en algorisme, i.e., an 'arithmetical nothing.'"[1] (Algorithm is also a borrowing from the Arabic, in this case from the name of the 9th century mathematician al-Khwarizmi.) The Arabic root gave rise to the modern French chiffre, which means digit, figure, or number; chiffrer, to calculate or compute; and chiffré, encrypted; as well as to the English word cipher. Today, the word in Arabic is still sifr, and cognates of sifr are common throughout the languages of Europe. A few additional examples follow.

Answer 5

I think 0 was invented in India. Without the number 0 we would have never had computers etc.

Answer 6

Zero Mostel. That's how it got it's name.

Answer 7

It was by Indian mathematicians who also were experts in Quantum Cosmology. But there is no record as to who first introduced it more than 30,000 years ago. The people west to India first came to know from Greece who were having trade connection with India since 1000 B.C. Pythagoras was in India before he taught Indian thoughts in Italy and Greece. The Arabians first came to know from India in 760 A.D. when some traders from Persia came to India and learned from a scholar in thee early 8th century A.D. One Mathematician by the name Kanka was invited by the Khalid of Iran to teach them. He taught the Brahma-Sphuta Sidhanta to Persian scholars who got it translated into Arabic. And much later it was translated into Latin and French before it was translated as Algebra into English and other European languages.

Answer 8

Let's see, base pay less Federal Income and State Income Taxes, Unemployment Tax, Sales Tax, Excise Tax, Property Tax ...... yep, for sure, it was the IRS.

Answer 9

god created numbers & rest all is done by human on this mother earth.
Zero was invented by an indian named aryabhatta.

Answer 10

I remember seeing a film about the history of math and science, there was a scene with two Arabs, one is working at a desk and says, "Allah be praised I have invented the zero!" His friend asks, "What?" He responds, "Nothing, nothing".