0️⃣🏛️ From Sumerian clay tablets to ancient Indian stone inscriptions, the concept of #zero followed a long and complex path before becoming the number we use today.

Mathematician Robert Kaplan traces this #history, looking at how "nothing" became a symbolic placeholder and a revolutionary force in human thought.

👉 https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/24/zero-robert-kaplan/

#math #science #discovery #philosophy #Mesopotamia #India

The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form

“If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world.”

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