An ancient Indian manuscript full of mathematical calculations has been found to be the earliest recorded use of the number “zero.” Bodleian Libraries Scientists have found the earliest recorded usage ...

An ancient Indian manuscript full of mathematical calculations has been found to be the earliest recorded use of the number “zero.” Bodleian Libraries Researchers are challenging a claim that an ...

The earliest ever use of the zero symbol dating back to the third century was found on an ancient Indian text that has been housed in a library in Britain for more than 100 years, scientists said.

Math is famously divisive. Some people like to say they’re not “math people” if they have trouble with the subject (though, that might not actually be a healthy approach). Well, guess who have turned ...

Ancient Indians were using a symbol for zero centuries earlier than historians previously thought, new research in the United Kingdom has revealed. Carbon dating performed by researchers at Oxford ...

A black dot on a third-century Indian manuscript has been identified by Oxford University as the first recorded use of the mathematical symbol for zero, 500 years earlier than previously thought.

The number zero is something we all take for granted, yet its conceptual origin has eluded archaeologists and historians. An updated analysis of an ancient Indian manuscript is shedding new light on ...

Bees are certified math whizzes, with scientists now discovering that these tiny insects are capable of associating symbols with the numbers they represent. It's well-known that bees are quite adept ...