BRAHMAGUPTA AND THE CONCEPT OF ZERO

This paper attempts to reconstruct the possible reasoning process that led the Indian mathematician Brahmagupta in 628 A.D. to the formulation of two controversial rules for arithmetic involving the number zero; rules which, contradict the modern arithmetic. This paper outlines a possible explanation of the issue based on similar reasoning.

Content

Author and article information

Journal

Title: ScienceOpen Preprints

Publisher: ScienceOpen

Publication date (Electronic preprint): 17 August 2021

Affiliations

[1 ] N.A.

Author notes

[* ]Email: monicafeliksiak@ 123456yahoo.com .

Author information

Monica Feliksiak https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5786-4227

Article

DOI: 10.14293/S2199-1006.1.SOR-.PPDUA3G.v1

SO-VID: 5da05fb2-da88-49c3-a258-5dcd4c9dd5c4

License:

This work has been published open access under Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY 4.0 , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Conditions, terms of use and publishing policy can be found at www.scienceopen.com .

History

Date received : 17 August 2021

Data availability: Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.

ScienceOpen disciplines: Mathematics

Keywords: Brahmagupta, Babylonian counting system, Bakhshali manuscript,Brahmasphutasiddhanta treatise,The concept of zero,decimal number system,Indian/Hindu counting system,Sumerian counting system,Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khowarizmi,Leonardo Fibonacci