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

256 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics science informative slow-paced
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The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for...

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