Who invented Zero ?
Answer:
The Indian mathematician and astronomer Brahmagupta (598-668 AD).
It was through Brahmagupta's book Brahma Sphuta Siddhanta that the Arabs came to know of Indian astronomy. The famous king Khalif Abbasid Al Mansoor(712-775) founded Baghdad, which is situated on the banks of the Tigris, and made it a center of learning. The King invited a scholar of Ujjain by the name of Kanka in 770 A.D. Kanka used the Brahma Sphuta Siddhanta to explained the Hindu system of arithmetic and astronomy.
Kat,
I don't think that the idea for "0" is an invention...it simply is.
However, I think the first documented use of "0" was found within the Mayan civilization...I dunno how long ago.
It is difficult to answer the question in a satisfactory form. If someone had come up with the concept of zero which everyone then saw as a brilliant innovation to enter mathematics from that time on, the question would have a satisfactory answer even if we did not know which genius invented it. The historical record, however, shows quite a different path towards the concept. Zero makes shadowy appearances only to vanish again almost as if mathematicians were searching for it yet did not recognise its fundamental significance.
The oldest known text to use zero is the Jain text from India entitled the Lokavibhaaga, dated 458 AD. It was first introduced to the world centuries later by Al-Khwarizmi, a Persian mathematician, astronomer and geographer. The first apparent appearance of a symbol for zero appears in 876 in India on a stone tablet in Gwalior. Documents on copper plates, with the same small o in them, dated back as far as the sixth century AD, abound.
HINDUS in India in Vedic age and found in vedic mathematics.
Thanks to the US Library, I read this wonderful book - "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" a couple of years ago.
In his own words - The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics.
Said that, it is likely that few progressive civilizations had the concept of zero - likely that they all evolved independently. By and large, The Hindu civilization used it widely and Europe got hold of this concept through Arabs who traded with India.
One striking difference is that mathematics primarily evolved for practical uses (like measuring land or constructing temples or pyramids) in various civilizations. But Indians used it on an academic level as well. Their strong hold was algebra and thus mathematics also evolved conceptually (with the idea of zero and infinity) - something not encountered in day-to-day use.
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The Muslims and Jewish merchants used and were familier with 0 "Zero" thousands of years ago. The first recorded date of the discovery that zero existed came from India 585 BC. To find out the exact true meaning of zero ask any village idiot.
Vedic hindu mathematicians invented zero.
I don't think any one did its like saying who invented all the other numbers
albert einstein
You either have or have not.
Therefore it is a state not an actual invention.
But it is also nought.
I heard it was Hindus' as well.
But I believe it were Mr & Mrs Mostel that invented Zero.
(hee-hee)
:o)
Dont know who exactly, but am sure it was invented in Iraq.
a polo mint
the person/s who invented numbers
the bank man - cos thats what he leaves in my account every month...
A Hero
It Was Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Nil Armstrong?
Welsh mathematition, Robert Recorde, was the first to use the 0 symbol, in the 16th Century. He also introduced the = sign.
When I was at school, I was told how many many years ago, the early mathematicians/accountants when adding up columns of figures, found whenever a gap appeared between, say, the hundreds and the units, a ring/circle would be drawn around the gap to signify a space in the tens column. And so on.
Always sounded feasible to me.
the arabs invented zreo!!!!
Mayans
It was invented by Nero the roman Cesar because he would have been called a ner all his life if not invented !Typhoo and Polo are also very gratful.
Mitsubishi- Japanese WWII aeroplane
I think it was the same guy that invented 1, 2, 3, 4 ,5 etc!
I would like to know who that was too!
God created everything. Including the number 0. We just discovered it. Maths has always been around, no man created it.
Its too perfectly designed and the possibility of it being an accident is just absurd.
God created everything
The arabs
Mr Fahrenheit
my mom did
im not quite sure, ask number one and he/she will soon enuff tell you who pushed infront of him in t queue lol
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