Indian mathematician Aryabhata invented Zero
Acharya Pingala, a Sanskrit scholar, and an Indian Mathematician first used the Sanskrit word 'Sunya', referred to as Zero. The word 'Sunya' means void or empty. It is believed that the first text to use the decimal place value system(including zero) was first used in Jain text or Cosmology named 'Lokavibhaga'.
India invented the decimal system in 100 BC,
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decimal (or denary) system is a numeral system that has the number ten as its
base(base 10). In 2600 BC, the Indus Valley Civilization includes the earliest
known physical use of decimal fractions in the ancient weight system. In
100–200 BC, The Satkhandagama is written in India—the earliest use of decimal
logarithms.
Baudhayana is the genius who calculated the value of Pi. He was an Indian. 235.
The Baudhāyana sūtras (Sanskrit: बौधायन) are a group of Vedic Sanskrit texts which cover dharma, daily ritual, and mathematics and are one of the oldest Dharma-related texts of Hinduism that have survived into the modern age from the 1st-millennium BCE. They belong to the Taittiriya branch of the Krishna Yajurveda school and are among the earliest texts of the genre.—Wikipedia
It was in 700 BC the World’s first university was
established in Takshashila. About 10500 students from across the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda was built in the 4th
century and was one of the greatest achievements of ancient Indians in the field of
Education.
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