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  1. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (Z) -…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/z/

    7 Mar 2023: By 1515 the French word "zéro" had appeared and the earliest citation in the OED for the English word zero is from Edward Grimstone's 1604 translation of The Natural and ... 477 referred to the matrix zero. ZERO-SUM GAME appears in 1944 in Theory of

  2. Arabic numerals - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Arabic_numerals/

    4 May 2024: show). G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the computer (London, 1998). ... G G Joseph, The crest of the peacock (London, 1991). R Kaplan, The nothing that is : a natural history of zero (London, 1999).

  3. Zero - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Zero/

    18 Jan 2024: J., 1999). G Ifrah, From one to zero : A universal history of numbers (New York, 1987). ... G G Joseph, The crest of the peacock (London, 1991). R Kaplan, The nothing that is : a natural history of zero (London, 1999).

  4. Indian numerals - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Indian_numerals/

    10 Jul 2023: show). G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the computer (London, 1998). ... G G Joseph, The crest of the peacock (London, 1991). R Kaplan, The nothing that is : a natural history of zero (London, 1999).