Actually, it is not. To the surprise of many people, Arabic numerals were not invented by Arabs. Arabs have nothing to do with the invention of this number. Arabs are only responsible for spreading it, but because they have had such a great influence in the process of spreading this number, people in many places mistakenly think that this number was invented by Arabs, so they call it Arabic numerals.
So which civilization invented this cosmic number? In fact, Arabic numerals were originally invented by ancient India. At the beginning of invention, Arabic numerals were relatively simple symbols. Until the 3rd century AD, a scientist named Baghdad in ancient India first created the Arabic numeral 1~3, where 4 is the sum of 2 and 2, and 5 is 2+2+ 1. After all this, Arabic numerals came from it.
About 200 years later, in the fifth century, Arabs began to conquer the neighboring nationalities until they conquered Punjab. To their surprise, mathematics in this area is even more advanced and developed than Arab civilization, so Arabs began to try their best to absorb these numbers and mathematical culture.
In 77 1 year, Arabs captured mathematicians in northern India and forced them to teach mathematical symbols, mathematical systems and their calculation methods at that time. Because this technical method is very simple and easy to make mistakes, Arab scholars and businessmen quickly adopted this method and spread it to the people.
As Arabs use this technology to do business, they gradually spread this number to Spain and other European countries to do business. Until the13rd century, at the initiative of Fibonacci, a mathematician in Pisa, Italy, all Europeans began to adopt Arabic numerals.
However, it should be noted that the writing shapes of Arabic numerals at that time were not exactly the same as those of modern Arabic numerals, but there were some similarities. Arabic numerals evolved into the writing style of 1234567890 that we see today. In fact, it has undergone a long evolution, and countless mathematicians have devoted their efforts to it.
It is precisely because this number has made great contributions to science and technology and human development that people mistakenly think that this number was invented and spread by Arabs.