Is This The World's First "True" Zero
The key result was, the library said, that one of the manuscript’s leaves contained the oldest known written zero.
Credit: Augustus Hoernle (1841-1918) / Wikimedia Commons
An international group of historians of Indian mathematics has now challenged Oxford’s findings.
The team, which includes scholars from universities in the USA, France, Japan, New Zealand and the University of Alberta in Canada, has published a peer-reviewed article that refutes several of the Library’s key assertions.
The scholars argue that the work written on the leaves of the Bakhshali manuscript is a unified treatise on arithmetic that must have been written at the time of the latest of the manuscript’s leaves, not the earliest. The treatise shows no signs of being a jumble of fragments from different periods. Both the handwriting and the topic being discussed are continuous across the boundary of the first two dated leaves. It looks very much as if the scribe, who may have lived at the end of the eighth century, wrote out his treatise on a group of leaves that had been manufactured at very different times.
A Big Zero: Research uncovers the date of the Bakhshali manuscript
Credit: University of Oxford
The zero in the Bakhshali treatise is younger, but more important than Oxford claimed.
The international team ends its article with a plea to Oxford University’s Library that important and complex scholarly topics should be published through established academic channels involving peer-review, and not through sensationalizing press releases to the media.
Contacts and sources:
Michael Brown
University of Alberta
Source: http://www.ineffableisland.com/2017/10/is-this-worlds-first-true-zero.html
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