1st Millennium AD
- 250 — Diophantus writes Arithmetica, one of the earliest treatises on algebra.
- 500 — Aryabhata solves the general linear diophantine equation.
- ca. 650 — Mathematicians in India create the Hindu-Arabic numeral system we use, including the zero and negative numbers.
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