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Origin of Modern Mathematical Numeral – 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9: the Hindu-Indian-Brahmagubta, The Islamo-Arabic or the West?
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to examine, analyze and ascertain the root of the modern mathematical numeral system between the Indian-Hindu Brahmagubta, Islamo-Arabic and the Western numeral systems. The paper utilized secondary source of data. The methodology adopted by the paper is content analysis. The findings of the paper revealed that the origin of the shapes of our ten modern numerals do not concern the Indian mathematics history, as …
Published in Research & Reviews: Discrete Mathematical Structures · Vol. 1, Issue 2, 2014 · pp. 36–55 Read article