Zero The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

Name: Zero The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
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ISBN: 9780140296471

ISBN-10: 0140296476

ISBN-13: 9780140296471

Edition: N/A

Authors: Charles Seife

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Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.19" wide x 8.00" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

A graduate of Yale University in Mathematics, Charles Seife's areas of research include probability theory and artificial intelligence. His journalism includes articles for The New Scientist, The Economist, and Scientific American among others. His first book, Zero: the Biography of a Dangerous Idea, won the PEN Award for Non-fiction.




Null and Void



Nothing Doing: The Origin of Zero



Nothing Comes of Nothing: The West Rejects Zero



Nothing Ventured: Zero Goes East



The Infinite God of Nothing: The Theology of Zero



Infinite Zeros and Infidel Mathematicians: Zero and the Scientific Revolution



Infinity's Twin: The Infinite Nature of Zero



Absolute Zeros: The Physics of Zero



Zero Hour at Ground Zero: Zero at the Edge of Space and Time



Zero's Final Victory: End Time



Animal, Vegetable, or Minister?



The Golden Ratio



The Modern Definition of a Derivative



Cantor Enumerates the Rational Numbers



Make Your Own Wormhole Time Machine


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index