Zero: How a Baghdad Scholar Made Nothing Count
Medieval Islamic World

Zero: How a Baghdad Scholar Made Nothing Count

A Persian mathematician's midnight calculation in Baghdad changed how humans think about numbers—but no one knows his name.

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MedievalIslamic Golden AgeMathematicsAbbasid CaliphateBaghdadHouse Of WisdomAl-KhwarizmiNumber TheoryCultural ExchangeScientific RevolutionPersian Scholarship

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