Around 2,500 years ago, Babylonian traders in Mesopotamia impressed two slanted wedges into clay tablets. The shapes represented a placeholder digit, squeezed between others, to distinguish numbers ...

(via Big Think) Before the introduction of zero, mathematics was a tangible subject, where numbers held weight and substance. With zero came the concept of a mathematical “nothing;” it turned our ...

Explains the concept of zero in mathematics, emphasizing its role as a number that represents the empty set. It illustrates how zero is used in addition and subtraction, showing that adding or ...