Lancelot Thomas Hogben (1895-1975) English zoologist and geneticist, has written:
"In the whole history of Mathematics, there has been no more revolutionary step than the one which the Hindus made when they invented the sign ‘0’ for the empty column of the counting frame."
(source: Mathematics for the Million - By Lancelot Thomas Hogben p. 47).
"In the whole history of Mathematics, there has been no more revolutionary step than the one which the Hindus made when they invented the sign ‘0’ for the empty column of the counting frame."
(source: Mathematics for the Million - By Lancelot Thomas Hogben p. 47).