<b>Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea</b>
http://www.amazon.com/Zero-Biography-Dange...e/dp/0140296476
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<b>It is among the Greek philosophers that Seife sees an outright distaste for the concept of zero as nothing, a void. </b>It conflicted with their particular notions of the universe and how it operated. Their aversion to it seems to have
carried over into the Mediaeval European period by way of the offended established principles of the church.
Seife follows the history of zero to modern times and discusses some of the ways that zero and infinity are
the same and some of the ways that they oppose one another. He brings both quantum mechanics and relativity theory into the discussion, revealing some of the ways that looking at zero and infinity have led to advances in physics in more recent times...<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://www.amazon.com/Zero-Biography-Dange...e/dp/0140296476
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->It may well be the most potent force in the universe. The Greeks were scared to death of it. Aristotle wouldn't permit it(and the Catholic Church's vice-grip on Aristotelianism held Western science and mathematics back for centuries)....<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->..
<b>It is among the Greek philosophers that Seife sees an outright distaste for the concept of zero as nothing, a void. </b>It conflicted with their particular notions of the universe and how it operated. Their aversion to it seems to have
carried over into the Mediaeval European period by way of the offended established principles of the church.
Seife follows the history of zero to modern times and discusses some of the ways that zero and infinity are
the same and some of the ways that they oppose one another. He brings both quantum mechanics and relativity theory into the discussion, revealing some of the ways that looking at zero and infinity have led to advances in physics in more recent times...<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->