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 EAN: 9780312012038 ISBN: 0312012039 Label: St. Martin's Press Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 111 Publication Date: 1987-09 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Studio: St. Martin's Press Related Items:
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 Rating: - Countdown from zeroA delightful little book about the history of zero. But by no means is it a history of nothing. It tells the story of how the zero was invented in India (perhaps out of philosophic necessity demanded by Vedic cosmology), then traveled over to the Arab world, giving birth to al-gebra eventually, and later still, arriving in Europe in the very early dawn of the Renaissance. That much we know. Rotman goes on to discuss the havoc the little non-number that was so incomprehensible to the Romans(they didn't ... Read More Rating: - great bookA clear explanation of the origins and concepts of zer 
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