Zero: La Storia Di Un'idea Pericolosa - Charles Seife • BookLikes (ISBN:8833914070)

Zero: La Storia Di Un'idea Pericolosa

by: Charles Seife (author)

Format: paperback

ISBN: 9788833914077 (8833914070)

Publish date: 2002

Publisher: Bollati Boringhieri

Pages no: 257

Edition language: Italian

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Non Fiction, Biography, History, Book Club, Science, Popular Science, Physics, Philosophy, Mathematics, Microhistory

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First, I want to say that I loved this book. It examines the historical introduction zero into our number system (as we found we wanted to do things other than just count), and then it examines the role that zero and its un-identical twin infinity play in several areas of modern, applied math. The...

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Two stars represents on Goodreads "it was okay" and I think that's about right. Yet that feels too low, because I did get through this book, and that usually represents at least a three to me--that I liked it--unless I find an ultimate WTF moment. If I was tempted to mark it lower, I think it's that...

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