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The nothing that is

by Kaplan, Robert, Robert Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan

1999 225 pages eng

Without zero, mathematics as we know it would not exist. And without mathematics our understanding of the universe would be vastly impoverished. But where did this nothing, this hollow circle, come from? And what, exactly, does it mean? For Kaplan, the history of zero is a lens for looking not only …

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