Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea. Charles Seife

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea


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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea Charles Seife
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This was a great audio book I listened to lately. Its based on the book Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife. I recently read Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife. 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. (To follow up in greater detail on the idea and history of zero, there are four key texts, all of which have helped to inform the discussion here: Brian Rotman, Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero (Macmillan Press, 1987); Robert Kaplan, That Is: A Natural History of O (London: Oxford University Press, 1999); Charles Seife, Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (London: Souvenir Press, 2000); and John D. We DARE you to read the book: Zero: The Biography of a DANGEROUS Idea or Life in COLD BLOOD. We mean nothing, or nothingness!! In Zero, Charles Seife tells us very effectively why zero is so important to mathematics (and would help the calendar be less confusing). Check it out… I'm sure there is a book on amazon or ebay. Zero book cover The conversation also led me to read the book* Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife. Charles Seife, professor of journalism, New York University, and author of Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea Eve Silverstein, professor of physics, Stanford University, and co-editor of Strings, Branes and Gravity. Barrow, The Book of Nothing (London: Vintage, 2001). It was an enjoyable read and well written. I've attempted to create a project that is inclusive of different student interests and strengths. Review - Zero: the biography of a dangerous idea - Charles Seife. However, like so many books of a mathematical nature it contained some significant worldview issues. "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea," Charles Seife (2000).