When1: 850
Who: Mahavira or Mahaviracharya
What: mathematician
Where: India
works\ Ganita Sara Sangraha or Compendium of the Essence of Mathematics [850]
Detail: He lived 800 to 870 and used zero, positional notation, decimal system, and negative, irrational, and rational numbers.
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