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Zero: the biography of a dangerous idea

By Matt , Seife , Charles; Zimet

Book information

Publisher
Penguin
ISBN
9780140296471, 0140296476, 9780670884575, 067088457X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3161053 bytes)
Pages
vi, 248 páginas: ilustraciones; 21 cm\294
Time added
2020-11-29 04:21:23
Nonfiction;Science;Mathematics;History;Philosophy;

Description

The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. For centuries, the power of zero savored of the demonic; once harnessed, it became the most important tool in mathematics.Zerofollows this number from its birth as an Eastern philosophical concept to its struggle for acceptance in Europe and its apotheosis as the mystery of the black hole. Today, zero lies at the heart of one of the biggest scientific controversies of all time, the quest for the theory of everything. Elegant, witty, and enlightening,Zerois a compelling look at the strangest number in the universe and one of the greatest paradoxes of human thought.

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