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  • Zero took its first tentative steps as a bona fide number under the tutelage of Indian mathematicians such as Brahmagupta, who in the seventh century showed how shunya behaved toward its number siblings.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • Zero took its first tentative steps as a bona fide number under the tutelage of Indian mathematicians such as Brahmagupta, who in the seventh century showed how shunya behaved toward its number siblings.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • Zero took its first tentative steps as a bona fide number under the tutelage of Indian mathematicians such as Brahmagupta, who in the seventh century showed how shunya behaved toward its number siblings.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • Brahmagupta (b. 598) systematized the rules of astronomy, arithmetic, algebra, and geometry.

    477-495+ 2001

  • The Indian economist Brahmagupta and Al-Khowërazmi coined these notions in order to generate the negative numbers which in the early modern period would help balance the books in double-entry book keeping.

    _Queen Mab_ as Topological Repertoire 1997

  • Brahmagupta, who lived in Ujjain, the center of Indian astronomy, [190] in the early part {53} of the seventh century, gives in his arithmetic [191] a distinct treatment of the properties of zero.

    The Hindu-Arabic Numerals David Eugene Smith 1902

  • She recalled the contributions of Aryabhatta and Brahmagupta to the development of Algebra and Astronomy.

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

  • She recalled the contributions of Aryabhatta and Brahmagupta to the development of Algebra and Astronomy and also that of Bhaskaracharya.

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

  • Defined in 628 by Brahmagupta as the result of a whole number substracted from itself.

    In These Times 2009

  • Defined in 628 by Brahmagupta as the result of a whole number substracted from itself.

    In These Times 2009

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