<!--QuoteBegin-acharya+Jan 28 2008, 07:39 AM-->QUOTE(acharya @ Jan 28 2008, 07:39 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Its more fiction than history,
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This review is from: The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero (Hardcover)</b>
A disappointing book. Like many Eurocentric historians who simply have to credit the Greeks with every great invention, regardless if they really are responsible for it or not, this book appears to have been written with an agenda of stealing the discovery (or invention)of Zero away from Indians and somehow thrust it on the Greeks. It appears that the author has worked a great deal more on his conclusions than his arguments. He gives no reliable references from the experts in the field to support the argument and mostly overlooks those who oppose his view. The book does not even care to give a bibliography which is required in any serious research document. Not worth the price if you are looking for an authentic work on the history of zero.
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It is not surprising they are sallying phorth as if nothing has intervened. Why they need to steal the zero? It is because they need to cover up the endemic normative ethics - the reality of which makes AIT an impossibilty. A normative ethics could never contemplate void and infinity inherent in one entity.
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This review is from: The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero (Hardcover)</b>
A disappointing book. Like many Eurocentric historians who simply have to credit the Greeks with every great invention, regardless if they really are responsible for it or not, this book appears to have been written with an agenda of stealing the discovery (or invention)of Zero away from Indians and somehow thrust it on the Greeks. It appears that the author has worked a great deal more on his conclusions than his arguments. He gives no reliable references from the experts in the field to support the argument and mostly overlooks those who oppose his view. The book does not even care to give a bibliography which is required in any serious research document. Not worth the price if you are looking for an authentic work on the history of zero.
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It is not surprising they are sallying phorth as if nothing has intervened. Why they need to steal the zero? It is because they need to cover up the endemic normative ethics - the reality of which makes AIT an impossibilty. A normative ethics could never contemplate void and infinity inherent in one entity.