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Inventé par les Babyloniens, rejeté par les Grecs, encensé par les Hindous, le zéro est au coeur des polémiques, des luttes, des spéculations des mathématiciens, des physiciens et des théologiens de toutes les époques. Le zéro est puissant parce qu'il triomphe des autres chiffre…
Un essai sur le zéro, chiffre énigmatique, tantôt rejeté tantôt idôlatré par des civilisations depuis l'Antiquité. Un voyage dans le temps et l'histoire des mathématiques.
Un essai sur le zéro, chiffre énigmatique, tantôt rejeté tantôt idôlatré par des civilisations depuis l'Antiquité. Un voyage dans le temps et l'histoire des mathématiques.
Zero indicates the absence of a quantity or a magnitude. It is so deeply rooted in our psyche today that nobody will possibly ask "What is zero?" From the beginning of the very creation of life, the feeling of lack of something or the vision of emptiness/void has been embedded b…
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"The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands of years been shroud…
"The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands of years been shroud…
"The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands of years been shroud…
"The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands of years been shroud…
"The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands of years been shroud…
"The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands of years been shroud…
The invention of numbers is perhaps the greatest achievement of the human mind-- virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, quantified. However, the origins of these numbers has until now been unknown. Amir Aczel crisscrosses the world, scouring dusty, moldy texts,…
From the zeros of the mathematician to the void of the philosophers, from Shakespeare to the empty set. This book ranges over every nook and cranny of nothingness to reveal how the human mind has had to make something of nothing in every field of human enquiry.