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Zero - A Landmark Discovery, the Dreadful Void, and the Ultimate Mind (Hardcover)
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Zero - A Landmark Discovery, the Dreadful Void, and the Ultimate Mind (Hardcover)
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Zero indicates the absence of a quantity or a magnitude. It is so
deeply rooted in our psyche today that nobody will possibly ask
"What is zero?" From the beginning of the very creation of life,
the feeling of lack of something or the vision of emptiness/void
has been embedded by the creator in all living beings. While
recognizing different things as well as the absence of one of these
things are easy, it is not so easy to fathom the complete
nothingness viz. the universal void. Although we have a very good
understanding of nothingness or, equivalently, a zero today, our
forefathers had devoted countless hours and arrived at the
representation and integration of zero and its compatibility not
only with all non-zero numbers but also with all conceivable
environments only after many painstaking centuries. Zero can be
viewed/perceived in two distinct forms: (i) as a number in our
mundane affairs and (ii) as the horrific void or Absolute Reality
in the spiritual plane/the ultimate state of mind. Presented are
the reasons why zero is a landmark discovery and why it has the
potential to conjure up in an intense thinker the dreadful
nothingness unlike those of other numbers such as 1, 2, and 3.
Described are the representation of zero and its history including
its deeper understanding via calculus, its occurrences and various
roles in different countries as well as in sciences/engineering
along with a stress on the Indian zero that is accepted as the
time-invariant unique absolute zero. This is followed by the
significant distinction between mathematics and computational
mathematics and the concerned differences between the unique
absolute zero and non-unique relative numerical zeros and their
impact and importance in computations on a digital computer.
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