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Despite its importance for mathematics, the neuronal basis of the number zero in the human brain was previously unknown.

Around 2,500 years ago, Babylonian traders in Mesopotamia impressed two slanted wedges into clay tablets. The shapes represented a placeholder digit, squeezed between others, to distinguish numbers ...

Despite its importance for mathematics, the neuronal basis of the number zero in the human brain was previously unknown. Researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University of Bonn and ...

(from left) Prof. Florian Mormann and Esther Kutter, together with Prof. Andreas Nieder from the University of Tübingen, clarify the neuronal basis of the mathematical concept of “zero”. Despite its ...