31 min
The Zero Story It’s a Math Math Math World with Divakaran and Shraddha
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- Mathematics
Remember that dreaded figure your teacher scrawled on the margin of your math test paper? It’s the hero of this episode.
Our much-villainised zero has a fascinating history. The Babylonians, as we discovered in Episode 1 (Babylon), may have arrived at a placeholder for zero, but the actual symbol did not enter convention until the 7th century in the Indian subcontinent. It later became a foundational element of mathematical concepts during the Islamic Golden Age (the word algebra has Arabic roots). Later, it was adopted in Europe by Renaissance mathematicians.
Long story short: Zero has come full circle.
In this episode, Divakaran and Shraddha host you through the evolution of zero through the ages.
Further reading:
Book | Physics for Entertainment by Yakov Perelman: Read online at OpenLibrary.org - https://urlis.net/pvzgqofb
Full text at Archive.org - https://urlis.net/d68xu7po
Charles Seife: ZERO : THE BIOGRAPHY OF A DANGEROUS IDEA Book | Amazon India: https://urlis.net/w050djz8
YouTube | Full Audio Transcript: https://youtu.be/tgvd1zMtKt0
Credits:
Akshay Ramuhalli, Bijoy Venugopal, Bruce Lee Mani, Narayan Krishnaswamy, Prashant Vasudevan, Sananda Dasgupta, Seema Seth, Shraddha Gautam, Supriya Joshi and Velu Shankar
Remember that dreaded figure your teacher scrawled on the margin of your math test paper? It’s the hero of this episode.
Our much-villainised zero has a fascinating history. The Babylonians, as we discovered in Episode 1 (Babylon), may have arrived at a placeholder for zero, but the actual symbol did not enter convention until the 7th century in the Indian subcontinent. It later became a foundational element of mathematical concepts during the Islamic Golden Age (the word algebra has Arabic roots). Later, it was adopted in Europe by Renaissance mathematicians.
Long story short: Zero has come full circle.
In this episode, Divakaran and Shraddha host you through the evolution of zero through the ages.
Further reading:
Book | Physics for Entertainment by Yakov Perelman: Read online at OpenLibrary.org - https://urlis.net/pvzgqofb
Full text at Archive.org - https://urlis.net/d68xu7po
Charles Seife: ZERO : THE BIOGRAPHY OF A DANGEROUS IDEA Book | Amazon India: https://urlis.net/w050djz8
YouTube | Full Audio Transcript: https://youtu.be/tgvd1zMtKt0
Credits:
Akshay Ramuhalli, Bijoy Venugopal, Bruce Lee Mani, Narayan Krishnaswamy, Prashant Vasudevan, Sananda Dasgupta, Seema Seth, Shraddha Gautam, Supriya Joshi and Velu Shankar
31 min