Description: Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea is available to download A concise and appealing look at the strangest number in the universe and its continuing role as one of the great paradoxes of human thought The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off Now, as Y2K fever rages, it threatens a technological For centuries the power of zero savored of the demonic; once harnessed, it became the most important tool in For zero, infinity’s twin, is not like other It is both nothing and Zero science journalist Charles Seife follows this innocent-looking number from its birth as an Eastern philosophical concept to its struggle for acceptance in Europe, its rise and transcendence in the West, and its ever-present threat to modern Here are the legendary thinkers–from Pythagoras to Newton to Heisenberg, from the Kabalists to today’s astrophysicists–who have tried to understand it and whose clashes shook the foundations of philosophy, science, mathematics, and Zero has pitted East against West an.This material is available do download at niSearch on 's eBooks, .Zero: The Biography of ... Textbook ....

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