Conceptual problems, ideology clashes and xenophobia prevented the concept of zero from catching on for a long time. Today all mathematics is based on it ...

About Brahmagupta I mean ... why did not a phalanx of Indian scientists and politicians jump down Sir Issac’s throat and expose him for his chicanery? Couldn’t we have engaged a battery ...

By 628, when Hindu astronomer Brahmagupta was hard at work, Indian scientists were using the dotted zero as a full-blown figure—and treating it like second nature. From India, zero spread—like ...

In 628 A.D., the Indian mathematician Brahmagupta wrote the first-ever ... As Timothy Revell reports for the New Scientist, carbon dating of an ancient text called the Bakhshali manuscript has ...

our modern conception of zero was first published in A.D. 628 by the Indian scholar Brahmagupta, although earlier cultures also had concepts of zero, including the Babylonians and Maya.

But only the Indian dot that would eventually go on to gain true number status, first described in 628 AD by the Indian astronomer and mathematician Brahmagupta ... at New Scientist Live in ...

The debate between mythology and "rational" science in India is at least as old as Aryabhata and Brahmagupta and, to this day, has not been resolved in the Indian popular thinking on science.' ...