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Zero: the biography of a dangerous idea
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 battled over the meaning of this mysterious number, that shook the very foundations of philosophy, science, mathematics and religion. Charles Seife's elegant and witty account takes us from Aristotle to superstring theory by way of Pythagoras, Descartes, the Kabbalists, and Einstein by way of Newton and Steven Hawking. It is a concise tour of a universe of ideas bound up in the simple notion of nothing.
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