🔄FROM THE ARCHIVE: Zero as a concept was something that didn’t always exist in human cultures. We had to find it for ourselves — more than once.
Of all the numbers that exist, there’s something special about zero. We can find real-world examples of other numbers, be it $1, 99 red balloons, 100 years of solitude or any other thing we care to tabulate. But it’s difficult to find examples of nothingness — even the supposed vacuum of space is disturbed byPerhaps that’s why zero is a fairly recent invention.
European civilizations were fairly late to the nothing game, incorporating zero into their cultures only after the mathematician Fibonacci brought the Indo-Arabic numeral system to Europe after travels in the Middle East and Africa. There, as elsewhere, zero would prove to be a revolutionary concept, inspiring thinkers of the Middle Ages and Renaissance to fundamental insights about mathematics and the world.The discovery of zero doesn’t seem to have come all at once, but rather in stages.
“When zero is added to a number or subtracted from a number, the number remains unchanged; and a number multiplied by zero becomes zero,” he writes.“For a brain that has evolved to process sensory stimuli , conceiving of empty sets as a meaningful category requires high-level abstraction. It requires the ability to represent a concept beyond what is perceived,” he writes.
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