Charles Seife, professor at New York University, wrote Zero, The Biography of a Dangerous Idea in 2000. Zero tells the story of how different cultures have used, or refused to recognize, the number zero in their mathematics. In telling this story, Seife also walks the reader through the history of mathematics including geometry, algebra, and calculus. A theme throughout the book is also the relationship of infinity and zero. In addition to the mathematical history, the book includes how zero and infinity link with many scientific concepts, including the future of the universe, absolute temperature, string theory, and quantum mechanics.
Sunday, December 3, 2023
Book Review: Zero, The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
(Image: https://www.ntskeptics.org/books/zero.gif)

Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1679 - One important message sent from Earth 31 years ago
In 1974 an interstellar radio transmission was broadcast to the globular cluster Messier 13 from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto ...

Popular in last 30 days
-
(Image: Grok) I asked Grok to write a post about the number 108: The Magic of the Number 108 The number 108 may seem unremarkable at first...
-
(Photo: Closeup of Achilles thniskon in Corfu Achilleion - Dr.K., CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, vi...
-
Brazil has produced many notable mathematicians who have made significant contributions to various fields of mathematics. Below is a list of...
No comments:
Post a Comment