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Zero - The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Paperback)
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Zero - The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Paperback)
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Zero follows the number zero from its birth as an Eastern
philosophical concept to its struggle for acceptance in Europe and
its apotheosis as the mystery of a black hole. Here are the
legendary thinkers who have battled over the meaking of this
mysterious number - scholars and mystics, cosmologists and
clergymen whose clashes over zero shook the very foundations of
philosophy, science, mathematics and religion. There was a time
when zero did not exist, the concept of zero is a relatively recent
Eastern concept and for centuries there was a struggle over its
very existence. For many cultures zero represented the void and it
could prove to undo the framework of logic. It was seen as an alien
concept that could shatter the framework of Christianity and
science. Charles Seife's elegant and witty account takes us from
Aristotle to superstring theory by way of Pythagorus, Descartes,
the Kabbalists, and Einstein by way of Newton and Stephen Hawking.
It is a concise tour of a universe of ideas bound up in the simple
notion of nothing.
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