Description: Title: Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea Author: Seife, Charles Publisher: Penguin Books Binding: Paperback Pages: 256 Dimensions: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.90d Product Weight: 0.5 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780140296471 Popular math at its most entertaining and enlightening. "Zero is really something"-Washington Post A New York Times Notable Book. The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Now it threatens the foundations of modern physics. For centuries the power of zero savored of the demonic; once harnessed, it became the most important tool in mathematics. For zero, infinity's twin, is not like other numbers. It is both nothing and everything. In Zero, Science Journalist Charles Seife follows this innocent-looking number from its birth as an Eastern philosophical concept to its struggle for acceptance in Europe, its rise and transcendence in the West, and its ever-present threat to modern physics. Here are the legendary thinkers--from Pythagoras to Newton to Heisenberg, from the Kabalists to today's astrophysicists--who have tried to understand it and whose clashes shook the foundations of philosophy, science, mathematics, and religion. Zero has pitted East against West and faith against reason, and its intransigence persists in the dark core of a black hole and the brilliant flash of the Big Bang. Today, zero lies at the heart of one of the biggest scientific controversies of all time: the quest for a theory of everything. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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Book Title: Penguin Books
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Zero : the Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Subject: History & Surveys / General, History & Philosophy, Number Theory, Physics / General
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2000
Item Weight: 7.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Charles Seife
Item Length: 8 in
Subject Area: Mathematics, Philosophy, Science
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Uk-B Format Paperback
