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The Nothing That is: A Natural History of Zero - Hardcover

Kaplan, Robert

 
9780713992847: The Nothing That is: A Natural History of Zero
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0713992840 ISBN 13: 9780713992847
Verlag: Allen Lane, 1999

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Forced into our awareness 2500 years ago by the need to count ever larger multitudes, zero began its career as two wedges pushed into a wet lump of Sumerian clay. The subsequent history of the notion 'nothing' and its mathematical representative 0 was far from straightforward. Zero disappeared for centuries, then swept from the East into the medieval world with fears and superstitions crouched around it. Was it the devil's work? Did we discover or invent it? Is it a number or a fiction? Its users came to see that it held immense power to unriddle the universe. THE NOTHING THAT IS reveals how the gigantic body of mathematics swings on the smallest of pivots.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

ROBERT KAPLAN has taught mathematics (most recently at Harvard University) to students from six to sixty. He has also taught Philosophy, Greek, German, Sanskrit and Inspired Guessing.

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Verlag
Allen Lane
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0713992840
ISBN 13 
9780713992847
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
240
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