Full name: Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

Author: Charles Seife Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Science, History, Biographies, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon OpenLibrary eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780140296471 0140296476

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. Zero follows 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, Zero is a compelling look at the strangest number in the universeૼand one of the greatest paradoxes of human thought. Similar books: The Nothing that Is by Robert Kaplan A History of Pi by Petr Beckmann A History of Mathematics by Carl B. Boyer Everything and More by David Foster Wallace Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh Journey through Genius by William Dunham Poincare's Prize by George G. Szpiro The Man of Numbers by Keith Devlin An Imaginary Tale by Paul J. Nahin The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio God Created the Integers by Stephen Hawking Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers by Jan Gullberg The Math Book by Clifford A. Pickover Euclid's Window by Leonard Mlodinow One to Nine by Andrew Hodges Sun in a Bottle by Charles Seife Uncertainty by David Lindley Decoding the Universe by Charles Seife Alpha and Omega by Charles Seife The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler