About 2,500 years ago, Babylonian traders in Mesopotamia impressed two slanted wedges into clay tablets. The shapes represented a placeholder digit, squeezed between others, to distinguish numbers ...

It all started with the beverage company’s post when they wrote the “real” reason behind Aryabhata inventing zero. “Sources say Aryabhata invented zero just to count the number of calories in Pepsi ...

Many mathematical equations can only be solved thanks to a special human invention: the number zero. In many ways, it is a strange concept. It’s a quantity, defined by absence. It also emerged ...

Two and a half millennia ago, from his perch in a Greek colony on Italy’s Terranean Sea, a deep thinker, Zeno, generated a series of pesky thought games. His parables challenged standard assumptions ...