Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
by:
Charles Seife (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B000QUEHLM
Publish date: September 1st 2000
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 248
Edition language: English
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...
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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