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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea Charles Seife
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)

Last week I read Charles Seife's book Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea and came away with the same experience. One of the most fascinating books I read this past year. It is the biography of the number, or non-number, zero. It's one of my all-time favorite pickup lines: "Honey, when you're done with this zero, call the hero." At which point I proffer a limited edition, Chewbacca. It's from Charles Seife, “Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea”: Hippasus of Metapontum stood on the deck preparing to die. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Paperback) newly tagged “book”. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea. Zero is about the origination of, and response over history to, the number zero. Our team of experienced writers is on standby to deliver to you an original paper as per your specified instructions with zero plagiarism guaranteed. By a several century old error (which includes miscalculating the year of Jesus Christ's birth, Dionysius Exiguus has it three years after King Herod died, from the book Zero, the Biography of a Dangerous Idea, page 54). I neglected to discuss the “History of Zero,” perhaps a future article? October 12 | Posted by | Uncategorized. The seemingly impossible Zen task--writing a book about nothing--has a loophole: people have been chatting, learning, and even fighting about nothing for millennia. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea: Charles Seife. €�Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea” by Seife Very readable and enjoyable book about the lengths people will go to in order to avoid dealing with numbers that don't match their world view. Veined hands, tallow dripping from candles? Thanks for the helpful comment. The second excerpt concerns betrayal and murder.