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Zero & Infinity
India's greatest gift to mathematics โ zero as a number was invented by Brahmagupta in 628 AD
India ๐ฎ๐ณ 628 Number Theory
Key Facts
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Brahmagupta (628 AD) first gave rules for arithmetic with zero โ including the controversial 0รท0
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Aryabhata (499 AD) used zero as a positional place value in his astronomical calculations
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Georg Cantor (1874) showed there are different sizes of infinity: countable (natural numbers) vs uncountable (real numbers)
๐ข Did you know? Without zero, there is no positional notation โ which means no large numbers, no calculus, no computers; zero is the single most important invention in mathematics
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Number Theory
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India's greatest gift to mathematics โ zero as a number was invented by Brahmagupta in 628 AD