The Nothing That is

A Natural History of Zero

Robert Kaplan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

1999
Allen Lane (Verlag)
978-0-7139-9284-7 (ISBN)

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In this text, Robert Kaplan explores the peculiar course that the notion of "nothing" or its mathematical representative, zero, has taken throughout history. Forced into our awareness 4000 years ago by the need to count ever larger multitudes, zero drifted in and out of focus, disappeared for centuries, then swept from the East into the medieval world, with fears and superstitions crouched around it. Did we discover or invent it? Was it the devil's work? Is it a number or a fiction? Its users came to see that it held immense power to unriddle the universe, leading to profound insights into the mind and the world. And now new layers are coming to light: our computers speak only in zeros and ones, and, for a cosmologist, zero alone can be made to generate everything.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.10.1999
Zusatzinfo	illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 205 mm
Gewicht	348 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Geisteswissenschaften
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Arithmetik / Zahlentheorie
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Mathematische Spiele und Unterhaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-7139-9284-0 / 0713992840
ISBN-13	978-0-7139-9284-7 / 9780713992847
Zustand	Neuware