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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea Charles Seife
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)

Babylonians invented it, Indians worshipped it, Greeks abhorred it. It also serves as an excellent introduction to ideas of limits and hence Calculus. I would highly recommend Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife. Easy to understand and fascinating. What you will find emerging out of the 117 essays written in response to the 2006 Edge Question — "What is your dangerous idea?" — are indications of a new natural . €�Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea” by Seife Very readable and enjoyable book about the lengths people will go to in order to avoid dealing with numbers that don't match their world view. Also explains imaginary numbers, or at least i and why they're called imaginary. In fact, there's a fantastic book written on the subject that is called Zero: The biography of a dangerous idea, and it is by Charles Seife. Zero: The Biography Of A Dangerous Idea >Nothing. In Zero, Charles Seife tells us very effectively why zero is so important to mathematics (and would help the calendar be less confusing). Zero has been a problematic number for a long time. There are two books on zero, The Nothing that Is by Robert Kaplan, which we reviewed in a rather summary fashion some time ago, and Zero, which slipped through the net first time around, but is now out in a new paperback edition. Charles Seife is the interesting author of another book I read, Decoding The Universe. Nevertheless I enjoy reading books like Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea. Review - Zero: the biography of a dangerous idea - Charles Seife.