Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

Zero is powerful because it is infinity’s twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang. They are equally paradoxical and troubling. The biggest questions in science and religion are about nothingness and eternity, the void and the infinite, zero and infinity. The atomists embraced the concept of the infinite vacuum—infinity and zero wrapped into one. This is the prime mover: God. When Christianity swept through the West, it became closely tied to the Aristotelian view of the u... leia mais