10 inventions that India gave to the world
India is one of the oldest civilization that has survived all tyranny of the attackers, invaders and plunderers. India has always been a land of seekers, and it has been a pioneer in the field of mathematics, science, medicine and astronomy. Mathematics Zero was invented by Aryabhatt and it was widely used in the trade and commerce between Indian and Arabian merchants. Zero , symbol: Indians were the first to use the zero as a symbol and in arithmetic operations, although Babylonians used zero to signify the 'absent'. In those earlier times a blank space was used to denote zero, later when it created confusion a dot was used to denote zero (could be found in Bakhshali manuscript. The usage of the zero in the Bakhshali manuscript was dated from between 3rd and 4th centuries, making it the earliest known usage of the symbol. Fibonacci numbers : This sequence was first described by Virahanka (c. 700 AD), Gopāla (c. 1135), an...