Name: Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (en Inglés)
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Author: Seife, Charles
ISBN: 9780140296471

portada Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Charles Seife

Editorial

Penguin Books

Año

2000

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

272

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.3 x 13.0 x 2.3 cm

Peso

0.23 kg.

ISBN

0140296476

ISBN13

9780140296471

Categorías

Filosofía de las matemáticas
Fundamentos matemáticos
Historia de las matemáticas
Filosofía de la ciencia
Influencia de la ciencia y la tecnología

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (en Inglés)

Charles Seife (Autor) · Penguin Books · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (en Inglés)"

Popular math at its most entertaining and enlightening. Zero is really something-Washington Post A New York Times Notable Book. The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Now it threatens the foundations of modern physics. For centuries the power of zero savored of the demonic; once harnessed, it became the most important tool in mathematics. For zero, infinity's twin, is not like other numbers. It is both nothing and everything. In Zero, Science Journalist Charles Seife follows this innocent-looking number from its birth as an Eastern philosophical concept to its struggle for acceptance in Europe, its rise and transcendence in the West, and its ever-present threat to modern physics. Here are the legendary thinkers--from Pythagoras to Newton to Heisenberg, from the Kabalists to today's astrophysicists--who have tried to understand it and whose clashes shook the foundations of philosophy, science, mathematics, and religion. Zero has pitted East against West and faith against reason, and its intransigence persists in the dark core of a black hole and the brilliant flash of the Big Bang. Today, zero lies at the heart of one of the biggest scientific controversies of all time: the quest for a theory of everything.