Zero

Where would humanity be without zero? 0 makes our entire lives possible. All complex mathematics—geometry, calculus, trigonometry, statistics—owe zero homage. Without 0, modern engineering, architecture, pharmacy, medicine, and science would all be inconceivable. Zero is numerical Chaos, seething, teeming with protean potentiality. The root of all

He explained that the basic Buddhist concept of shunyata, or emptiness, which derives from Indian philosophy, was carried by a Jewish scholar into the Arabic world where it became the mathematical zero.