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Zero : the biography of a dangerous idea / Charles Seife

This history traces the development of zero from an Eastern philosophical concept to a fundamental tool in modern mathematics and physics. It examines the influence of zero on religious and scientific thought from antiquity to the study of modern cosmology.

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