Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

Charles Seife

256 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics science challenging informative slow-paced
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Popular math at its most entertaining and enlightening. Zero is really something-Washington Post A New York Times Notable Book. The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics...

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