Zero – The Dangerous Idea banned and worshipped.

Posted on | September 4, 2012 | No Comments

Zero - The Dangerous Idea banned and worshipped. Zero – The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife, Penguin Publishing It’s a concept so familiar to people in the current age including mathematicians, nuclear physicists, religious theorists, and children, yet most people celebrated the wrong change of the recent millennia. Charles Seife illustrates not only the origins of the concept of zero – null exists before the number one – but the adoption of numerics across time. The church fought against the idea of zero and infinity because it conflicted with the powers of their god. Other religions revered the concept and while land surveyors used the number zero they were banned from speaking about it in public. This excellent book is not only about the fight of logic versus religion but shows numerous historical examples of ignorance and its stubborn position. Seife writes without bias but one example after another shows the war of ideas and reality in narrow-minded societies.

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