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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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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.
Explores the concept of nothingness, from the origins of zero in ancient India to attempts by modern mathematics, cosmology, theology, and physics to explain the role of "nothing" in the structure of the universe.
What conceptual blind spot kept the ancient Greeks (unlike the Indians and Maya) from developing a concept of zero? Why did St. Augustine equate nothingness with the Devil? What tortuous means did 17th-century scientists employ in their attempts to create a vacuum? And why do co…
Explores the concept of nothingness, from the origins of zero in ancient India to attempts by modern mathematics, cosmology, theology, and physics to explain the role of "nothing" in the structure of the universe.
What conceptual blind spot kept the ancient Greeks (unlike the Indians and Maya) from developing a concept of zero? Why did St. Augustine equate nothingness with the Devil? What tortuous means did 17th-century scientists employ in their attempts to create a vacuum? And why do co…
John Barrow examines and explains every aspect of nothingness. From the zeros of mathematicians to the void of philosophers, from Shakespeare to the null set, from the ether to the quantum vacuum, this book illustrates the fact that nothing is real. Barrow begins with the origin…