Across
- 1. The ancient Indian philosophical and meditative state of "emptiness" or "nothingness" that provided the framework for zero
- 2. A bold dot used in the ancient Bakhśhālī Manuscript to represent zero.
- 6. A fascinating repeating block of digits (like 142857) that simply shifts in a circular pattern when multiplied
- 8. The mathematician who formally transformed the void into a number and introduced rules for zero and negative numbers
- 11. A rational decimal expansion that eventually leaves a remainder of 0 and stops
- 12. An ancient term meaning "approximation," used by Āryabhaṭa regarding his calculation of Pi
- 14. The ancient Indian mathematical term used to represent "fortunes" or positive numbersTERMINATING, A rational decimal expansion that eventually leaves a remainder of 0 and stops
- 15. The ancient Indian term used by Brahmagupta to represent "debts" or negative numbers
Down
- 1. The Sanskrit word for zero
- 3. A 20,000-year-old bone found in the Congo that contains groupings of prime numbers and evidence of multiplication .
- 4. The set of numbers formed by uniting the rational and irrational numbers into a continuous, unbroken line
- 5. Numbers like the square root of 2 and Pi that cannot be written as fractions
- 7. An ancient 35,000-year-old bone featuring 29 uniform notches, discovered in Africa
- 9. A decimal expansion of a rational number that loops infinitely and never reaches a remainder of 0
- 10. The mathematician from the Pythagorean school who used "Proof by Contradiction" to prove that the square root of 2 is irrational
- 13. The mathematician from Sangamagrama who discovered that Pi must be expressed using an infinite series rather than a single fraction