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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

Charles Seife, Matt Zimet (Illustrator)

Find this book at buch7.de | eurobuch.com | buchhandel.de | books.google.com ASIN=0140296476, Category: Science, Language: E, cover: PB, pages: 256, year: 2000.

Book Description
Charles Seife traces the origins and colorful history of the number zero from Aristotle to superstring theory by way of Pythagoras, the Kabbalists, and Einstein. Weaving together ancient dramas and state-of-the-art science, Zero is a concise tour of a universe of ideas bound up in the simple notion of nothingness.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author
Charles Seife is a correspondent for Science, a London -- based international weekly science magazine. He has written for Scientific American, The Economist, Wired UK, The Sciences, and numerous other publications. He has a masters degree in mathematics from Yale.