History: Origin of Zero (0)

The word zero came into the English language via French zéro from Italian zero,
Italian contraction of Venetian zevero form of Italian zefiro via ṣafira or ṣifr. In
pre-Islamic time the word ṣifr (Arabic ‫ )صفر‬had the meaning "empty". Sifr evolved to
mean zero when it was used to translate sunya (Sanskrit: शून्य ) from India.

nfr heart with trachea

beautiful, pleasant, good

The Sumerians were the first to develop a counting system in order to count- cattle,
horses, and donkeys. Later it reached to Babylonians in 2000 BC. Later, Indian
scholar and mathematician Aryabhatta defined zero first time in 628 AD.
Then, Aryabhatta a great mathematician and an astronomer used zero in the
decimal system. Later Zero reached Baghdad in 773 AD. In the 9th century,
al-Khwarizmi was the first to work on equations that equaled zero, and founded
algebra. Later, zero finally reached Europe by the 12th century. Later, in the 1600’s,
Newton and Leibniz solved this problem independently and opened the world to
tremendous possibilities.

Writing Numbers

The Babylonians displayed zero with two angled wedges (middle).

The Mayans used an eyelike character [top left] to denote zero.

The Chinese started writing the open circle we now use for zero.

The Hindus depicted zero as a dot.

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