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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
by Charles Seife
How zero was feared, banned, embraced and became essential: Babylon, Greece, India, calculus, black holes. A short, lively history.
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you want one number's biography.
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you want broad math history.
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Three things you will actually use
- Nothing was a revolution.
- Ideas meet resistance.
- Zero underlies everything.
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Read the chapters on India.
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