2007-09-21 20:24:51 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Zero was invented by the ancient Indian scientists. Most people accept that it was invented by great mathematician Aryabhatta
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2007-09-21 20:34:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is like asking which engineer invented the wheel. The truth of the matter is that different cultures came up with the idea independently. And even then it's impossible to trace its usage to one particular mathematician.
It also depends on what exactly you mean by "zero" since zero in our number system acts as both a place holder for digits (so that we can distinguish 1 from 10 or 100), and a number whose value is "nothing". The Babylonians had the earliest known usage of it as a place-holder. India seemed to be among the first to use it as a workable number, though the Arabs were well know for this too. Our present ten-digit numeral system, which includes 0, came from the Arabs.
2007-09-21 21:09:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The oldest zero in history was in Babylon. The Babylonian mathematicians and astronomers developed a genuine zero to signify the absence of sexagesimal units of a certain order.
Indians and Mayans also use zero!
2007-09-21 20:34:11 · answer #3 · answered by criselda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
See "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea," Charles Seife, Viking Press.
2007-09-22 01:14:39 · answer #4 · answered by Tony 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The indians from India invented the zero.
Aryabata. ?? Who knows for sure?
2007-09-21 21:01:21 · answer #5 · answered by Barbra 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Don't know the name, but he/she was an Aztec or Inca in pre-Columbian South America.
2007-09-21 20:31:10 · answer #6 · answered by Ricky J 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋