Apparently the first person to treat zero as an independent number was the Indian mathematician Brahmagupta, in 628 AD.
See http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Zero.html .
It came from the creators idea and perspective.
alexander graham bell came from south east asia after working twelve years as a slave he stole the idea from a monkey
who came up with the idea of NAFTA
The actual creator of the idea of the flute is unknown. On the other hand, many believe that Divje Babe, from Slovenia, had the idea, eventhough he was actually the first to make one that worked.
It came about from people wondering if there was life elsewhere in the Universe, many people believe that there are life forms on other planets and others do not.
Mr Miyamoto's wifes name is Zelda believe it or not that's how he came up with the idea for the legend of Zelda series go figure.
I have no idea yes?
I believe that no you cannot attribute ownership to one person because that person somehow was educated and with his knowledge came to his idea from his past teachings, so you can give majority of the credit to one person but not completely.
The existence of the human soul is the worldwide tradition of all mankind. No natural society ever existed that did not believe in the existence of the soul.
The founding fathers came up with the idea of independence. They adopted the idea from the French people during the French Revolution,
To destroy the indians
I have no idea what you are talking about. Does WHO believe in Allah?