Astronomers and astrologers were the ancient numerical calculators. their intellectual works had major influence and motivation for advances in mathematics.
The traditional astrologer community "Ganaka" was the real mathematicians of ancient Kerala. Non European roots of mathematics extends up to them. Their lore was later learned by many other classes.
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Ancient Greek philosophers and theologians debated the concept of zero and the meaning of nothingness. To them, zero may have been undefined. Contemporary mathematicians do not enter into such debates in their roles as mathematicians (which is not to say that some of them may not have night jobs as philisophers or theologians). To mathematicians, zero is very well defined and an important element of mathematics.
No. The origins of algebra can be traced back to ancient Babylonia mathematicians roughly four thousand years ago.
Mathematicians in ancient India s invented the decimal system around in the 9th century CE. It was later adopted by Persian and Arabic mathematicians and spread to the western world by the High Middle Ages.
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