Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stores we have been told about it are wrong,  Brilliant Arabic scholars of the ninth-century House of Wisdom, and the pioneering African American  Mathematicians of the twentieth century to the “lady computer’ around the world who revolutionised our knowledge of the night sky, we meet these fascinating trailblazers and see how they contributed to our global knowledge today. Kate Kitagawa, director of the Space Education Office at the Japan, Aerospace Exploration Afghanistan  and Timothy Revell’s ( deputy US editor at the New Scientist,  … Continue reading Concept of Zero