Gupta Empire Achievements: Zero, Chess, and Surgery in India’s Golden Age
Somewhere in the city of Pataliputra — a metropolis sprawling along the Ganges in what is now Bihar, India — a mathematician pressed a small, clean circle into clay sometime around the fifth century CE. It was not a decoration. It was not a placeholder for the divine. It was a number:...
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