EVOLUTION OF NUMBERS

"Evolution of numbers"

History

The first method of counting was counting on fingers. 

This evolved into sign language for the hand-to-eye communication of nos which, while not writing, gave way to written nos. 

Tallies made by carving notches in wood, bone, and stone were used for at least forty thousand years.

Who discovered the numbers?

Zero was invented independently by the Babylonians, Mayans and Indians.The Babylonians got their number system from the Sumerians the first people in the world to develop a counting system. Sumer was the first urban civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia, modern-day southern Iraq, during the Chalcolithic and "Early Bronze"ages, and arguably the first civilization in the world.

From there, use of Arabic numbers spread to conquer the world.The next big evolution in numbers came in  Germany in 1679.German mathematician "Gottfried Liebnitz" invented a system of counting that used only ones and zeros; what would eventually be called the binary system.

Carl Boyer showed that Egyptians created the first ciphered numeral system.Greeks followed by mapping their counting numbers onto Ionian and Doric alphabets. The number five can be represented by digit "5" or by the Roman numeral "Ⅴ".

"Arrival of Hindu Numerals"

THE JOURNEY:From Apices To Modern Digits

The discovery of zero and the place-value system were inventions unique to the Indian civilization. As the Brahmi notation of the first 9 whole nos. The numeral set used in the Middle East today is a cousin of the modern numeral set, with a common ancestor in the ancient Hindu numerals.