Question

When was zero invented and by whom

Answer 1

The Egyptians and the Sumerians were two of several civilizations who independently invented Zero. The first zero is known to have been utilised in Mesopotamia over 5000 years ago through a pair of angled wedges, as Harvard scholar "Robert Kaplan" claims. The civilizations that came after the Sumerians and the Chinese (the Babylonians) followed them. However, even in these two civilizations, it was merely employed as a stand-in, or as a way to distinguish ten from one hundred, or to denote an empty column in the case of hundreds and thousands. Giving any civilization real credit for discovering zero is not possible, but if we talk about the symbol of Zero then it was invented by the Indian mathematician Aryabhatta in the 5th century, In his Sanskrit treatises, he employed zero as a placeholder and in algorithms for locating square roots and cube roots.