Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers by Amir D. Aczel

Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers

Amir D. Aczel

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nonfiction history mathematics science informative slow-paced
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The story of how we got our numbers--told through one mathematician's journey to find zeroThe invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or qu...

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