Zero : the biography of a dangerous idea
(2000)
By:
Seife, Charles
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
513/SEIFE,C
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Viking, 2000
DESCRIPTION
vi, 248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
067088457X
LANGUAGE
English
CONTENTS
Null and void --
Nothing doing:
Origin of zero --
Nothing comes of nothing:
West rejects zero --
Nothing ventured:
Zero goes east --
Infinite God of nothing:
Theology of zero --
Infinite zeros and infidel mathematicians:
Zero and the scientific revolution --
Infinity's twin:
Infinite nature of zero --
Absolute zeros:
Physics of zero --
Zero hour at ground zero:
Zero at the edge of space and time --
Zero's final victory:
End time