Who found zero?

Answer: The concept of zero, which is a huge deal in the world of numbers, was first developed in ancient India. The person often credited with this discovery is a mathematician named Brahmagupta, who lived around the year 600 AD. Before Brahmagupta, some cultures had ideas of ‘nothingness’ or empty spaces in counting systems, but they didn’t have a specific number or symbol for it.

Brahmagupta went a step further. He started treating this ‘nothingness’ as a number on its own, calling it ‘zero’. He wrote rules about how to use this new number in calculations, like adding and subtracting. This was a game-changer because it made math a lot easier and more powerful.

The concept of zero then spread from India to other places like the Middle East and eventually to Europe, transforming the way people all over the world did math. So, while the idea of ‘nothing’ was around for a while, it was Brahmagupta who really introduced zero as a number and showed everyone how useful it could be.