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Zero : the biography of a dangerous idea / Charles Seife

by 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.

Accession 21810 ISBN 0285635867 Publisher Souvenir Press
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