Charles Seife

Zero

The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

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Produktbeschreibung

This informative and easy-to-read book is the story of the people who battled over the meaning of the mysterious number - the scholars and mystics, the scientists and clergymen - who each tried to understand zero.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile Books Ltd
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 136mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 178g
• ISBN-13: 9780285635944
• ISBN-10: 0285635948
• Artikelnr.: 21224636

Autorenporträt

Charles Seife

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 0: Null and Void
Chapter 1: Nothing Doing: The Origin of Zero
Chapter 2: Nothing Comes of Nothing: The West Rejects Zero
Chapter 3: Nothing Ventured: Zero Goes East
Chapter 4: The Infinite God of Nothing: The Theology of Zero
Chapter 5: Infinite Zeroes and Infidel Mathematicians: Zero and the
Scientific Revolution
Chapter 6: Infinity's Twin: The Infinite Nature of Zero
Chapter 7: Absolute Zeroes: The Physics of Zero
Chapter 8: Zero Hour at Ground Zero: Zero at the Edge of Space and Time
Chapter Infinity: Zero's Final Victory: End Time
Appendix A: Animal, Vegetable, or Minister?
Appendix B: The Golden Ratio
Appendix C: The Modern Definition of a Derivative
Appendix D: Cantor Enumerats the Rational Numbers
Appendix E: Make Your Own Wormhole Time Machine
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index