The Origin Of Zero

What strikes me about the article is that they know when zero arrived. According to the article, it arrived in the West circa 1200 which was suposed to be delivered by the Italian mathematician Fibonacci.Also it strikes me how it started at just a meere symbol rather as the zero we know today


in the article, it doesn't explain who really discovered zero. It says in the article that zero was used as a "placeholder" to tell a way to tell 1 from 10 from 100, to give an example using Arabic numerals. But the second article says that the Mayans invented it, then India, and china, so maybe all of the ancient civilizations invented it in their own way, so therefore it has no creator.

Each civilization created and invented zero on their own, in the article, What is the origin of zero? How did we indicate nothingness before zero? says that the first recorded zero appeared in Mesopotamia around 3 B.C. The Mayans invented it independently circa 4 A.D. It was later devised in India in the mid-fifth century, spread to Cambodia near the end of the seventh century, and into China and the Islamic countries at the end of the eighth. Zero reached western Europe in the 12th century. so therfore all civilizations created it on their own.