a book
Zero
Charles Seife · 2000
A "biography" of the most vexing and troublesome number in human history reveals how the Babylonians invented it, why the Greeks were afraid of it and the Hindus worshipped it, the role it played in hunting down heretics in the Middle Ages, and its placein the Y2K issue.
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Bryan Johnson
“Chronicles how hard it was for humanity to come up with and hold onto the concept of zero. No zero, no math. No zero, no engineering. No zero, no modern world as we know it...”↗
Raychelle Burks
“Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King Zero by @cgseife Examining Tuskegee by Susan Reverb The Physics of the Buffyverse by @JenLucPiquant”↗
