Тексты на английском языке для студентов экономического факультета

Аннотация

An essential contribution to modern technological development was the introduction of the zero to the mathematics of the Western World. The concept of symbolically representing “nothing" in a numerical system is considered to be one of man’s great intellectual achievements.Various people throughout the world have used systems of counting without having the zero. The classical Greeks assigned a different letter of their alphabet, to represent each number from 1 to 10 and each of the multiples of 10. Any number not represented by a single letter symbol was expressed by the sum of the value of several symbols. For example, the number 238 was indicated by writing the letter symbols for 200, 30, and 8 adjacent to each other.