Manuel Alvarez:
It’s a fantastic history, and how revolutionary it was the number Zero.
United States on Jan 28, 2024
Amazon Customer:
Yep, I really enjoyed this book
United Kingdom on Nov 04, 2023
Ayushi vandanaAyushi vandana:
India on Sep 09, 2023
Derrick Agyemang:
Great book. The delivery was perfect.
Germany on Sep 06, 2023
Kindle Customer:
I was looking for a history book, and it got to thecnical for my liking. Not really an easy read.
Spain on Jul 09, 2023
Oldtimer:
As a high school dropout I found this book an amazing read. I found it easy to read and comprehend (mostly) and very informative on the different ways peoples around the world kept track of their stuff and the universe
Canada on Sep 01, 2022
Tech Cadet:
Overall a really great journey through the concept and history of Zero. It gets bogged down with a wee bit of advanced math at times, but if you can hang in there and plow through those periodic detours, it really paints a fascinating historical progression of the concept of Zero. I also enjoyed that as it tells the tale of Zero, it does so against a backdrop of how many times through history that a few brave souls dare to look "outside the box", go against the generally accepted " truths" of the time, and revolutionize the understanding of our place in the physical world we live in.
United States on Apr 28, 2022
Abacus:
Charles Seife with three degrees in math and journalism from Ivy League schools is a very talented science writer. This is the first book of five he wrote on math and sciences. This entertaining book covers much of the history of math. Among many other things, it is an insightful revisionist look at the Greek legacy.
The Greeks left a formidable legacy in geometry but held back math for over a millennium. This is because they treated numbers almost exclusively as geometric shapes. They fanatically rejected basic mathematical concepts that did not fit a geometric framework such as: negative numbers, irrational numbers, the concepts of Zero and infinity. This rendered them innumerate outside geometry. They fanatically rejected those concepts to protect Pythagorean geometry. Several Greek mathematicians daring to explore those concepts paid with their lives. Pythagoras, leader of a mathematically oriented cult, sentenced one such heretic mathematician to death. Given the Greeks mentioned gaps, they had no way of developing algebra and calculus which are the foundation of our information-algorithmic world. Obviously, calculus includes both algebra...
United States on Aug 21, 2011
Gradient Vector Field:
I'll admit, writing a book about nothing and making it exciting is probably a challenging thing to do. This is going to be a rather odd thing to bring up at the start of the review, but I have to ask did people read a different book than I did? Seriously, I read through just about every negative review and the points made against the book are barely in the book I read. If anything, they focus in on a minor detail, interpret it wrong, and then give the book a one star. I digress, let me get to the review and then I may go over some points to refute.
This book focuses on the history of Zero for the most part. In there it touches upon historical moments in mathematics and later in physics as it gets to the modern scientific era. I personally found the research on the early history quite on point and very fun to read (there's a lengthy bibliography at the end if you feel the need to see his words backed up). The sensational writing didn't bother me at all, because I realize the relationship between the title and the style. Seife is trying to make nothing exciting! If you didn't get that point or got annoyed with that style then you missed out on a...
United States on Sep 11, 2008
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| ISBN-13 | 978-0670884575 | 978-1697668575 | 978-1888009194 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #33 in Number Theory #139 in Mathematics History #148 in Math Games | #1 in Number Theory #523 in Children's Books | #29 in Number Theory #87 in Geometry & Topology #122 in Mathematics History |
| Mathematics History | Mathematics History | Mathematics History | |
| ISBN-10 | 067088457X | 1697668577 | 1888009195 |
| Math Games | Math Games | ||
| Hardcover | 256 pages | ||
| Language | English | English | English |
| Publisher | Viking Adult; First Edition | Independently published | Green Lion Press; Later Printing edition |
| Dimensions | 5 x 1.25 x 8.75 inches | 8.5 x 0.25 x 11 inches | 7.12 x 1.18 x 10.07 inches |
| Item Weight | 15.2 ounces | 9.6 ounces | 2.06 pounds |
| Number Theory (Books) | Number Theory | Number Theory | Number Theory |
United States on Feb 11, 2024