WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Yes, the given statement is true. Zero was discovered in India.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Indians also used a place-value system and zero was used to denote an empty place. In fact there is evidence of an empty place holder in positional numbers from as early as 200AD in India but some historians dismiss these as later forgeries.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hindu astronomers and mathematicians Aryabhata, born in 476, and Brahmagupta, born in 598, are both popularly believed to have been the first to formally describe the modern decimal place value system and present rules governing the use of the zero symbol.

Detailed explanation-4: -Arab merchants encountered the zero in India and carried it to the West. What is widely found in textbooks in India is that a mathematician and astronomer, Aryabhata, in the 5th century used zero as a placeholder and in algorithms for finding square roots and cube roots in his Sanskrit treatises.

Detailed explanation-5: -The first recorded zero appeared in Mesopotamia around 3 B.C. The Mayans invented it independently circa 4 A.D. It was later devised in India in the mid-fifth century, spread to Cambodia near the end of the seventh century, and into China and the Islamic countries at the end of the eighth.

Detailed explanation-6: -The concept of zero as a written digit in the decimal place value notation was developed in India.