Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea Paperback - 2000
by Charles Seife
The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Today, zero lies at the heart of one of the biggest scientific controversies of all time, the quest for the theory of everything. Line illustrations.
Summary
In 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 physics. 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 religion. Zero has pitted East against West and faith against reason, and its intransigence persists in the dark core of a black hole and the brilliant flash of the Big Bang. Today, zero lies at the heart of one of the biggest scientific controversies of all time: the quest for a theory of everything.
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The story of zero is an ancient one.
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- Title Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
- Author Charles Seife
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date September 5, 2000
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780140296471 / 0140296476
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.1 x 0.9 in (20.32 x 12.95 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Zero (The number)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99036693
- Dewey Decimal Code 513
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