Zero: the Biography of a Dangerous Idea By Charles Seife, Matt Zimet

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This book 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 - mystics, cosmologists and clergymen whose clashes over zero shook the very foundations of philosophy, science, mathematics, and religion. With index and bibliography.

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This book 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 - mystics, cosmologists and clergymen whose clashes over zero shook the very foundations of philosophy, science, mathematics, and religion. With index and bibliography.