Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

Charles Seife

248 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics science challenging informative slow-paced
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The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipped 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 everyth...

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