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The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipped it, and the Christian Church used it to fend off heretics. Today it's a timebomb ticking in the heart of astrophysics. For zero, infinity's twin, is not like other numbers. It is both nothing and everything.
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. Within the concept of zero lies a philosophical and scientific history of humanity.
Charles Seife's elegant and witty account takes us from Aristotle to superstring theory by way of Egyptian geometry, Kabbalism, Einstein, the Chandrasekhar limit and Stephen Hawking. Covering centuries of thought, it is a concise tour of a world of ideas, bound up in the simple notion of nothing.
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Descripción Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Zero is a relatively recent invention. Invented by the Babylonians, banned by the Greeks and worshipped by Hindus zero has had a fascinating history. Zero was born as an Eastern philosophical concert and this informative, accessible history traces the story of this mysterious number and the people (scholars and mystics, scientists and clergymen) who have fought over its meaning. The battles over zero shook the foundations of philosophy, science, mathematics and religion. Underneath every revolution in the last millennium lay a zero. Charles Seife is a correspondent for New Scientist and has done extensive research into probability theory, artificial intelligence and visualisation of multidimensional spaces. He was trained by mathematicians such as Andrew Wiles, who solved Fermats Last Theorem 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9780285635944
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Descripción Softcover. Condición: New. 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. Nº de ref. del artículo: DADAX0285635948
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