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

In Zero, Charles Seife tells us very effectively why zero is so important to mathematics (and would help the calendar be less confusing). According to Charles Seife, author of “Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea”, The Number zero was first used in West circa 1200; it was delivered by an Italian Mathematician, who joined this, with the Arabic numerals. Charles Seife: Professor of Journalism, New York University, author of Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea. Thanks for the helpful comment. I neglected to discuss the “History of Zero,” perhaps a future article? Review - Zero: the biography of a dangerous idea - Charles Seife. Connection to it but I could lay the blame for that with the fact that I was reading several books at a time, with some of them being titles like The History of Elementary Mathematics and Zero: A Biography of a Dangerous Idea. There are two books on zero, The Nothing that Is by Robert Kaplan, which we reviewed in a rather summary fashion some time ago, and Zero, which slipped through the net first time around, but is now out in a new paperback edition. The first part of the book is more about the history of zero, which is interesting. It is the biography of the number, or non-number, zero. Eva Silverstein: Professor of Physics, Stanford University, co-editor of Strings, Branes and Gravity. One of the most fascinating books I read this past year. I think I just learned more about zero than I'd ever care to know. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea. "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea," Charles Seife (2000).