Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea | |
Author: | Charles Seife |
Border: | yes |
Published: | February 7, 2000 |
Subject: | Zero, nothingness |
Genre: | Non-fiction |
Publisher: | Viking Adult |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Media Type: | Print, e-book |
Isbn: | 978-0670884575 |
Pages: | 256 pp. |
Followed By: | Alpha & Omega |
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea is a non-fiction book by American author and journalist Charles Seife.[1] [2] The book was initially released on February 7, 2000, by Viking.
The book offers a comprehensive look at number 0 and its controverting role as one of the great paradoxes of human thought and history since its invention by the ancient Babylonians or the Indian people. Even though zero is a fundamental idea for the modern science, initially the notion of a complete absence got a largely negative, sometimes hostile, treatment by the Western world and Greco-Roman philosophy.[3]
Zero won the 2001 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Book.