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Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.: Oxford Univ Press, 1999. Book. Very Good. Mass Market Paperback. Slight cover wear. Nice, clean, tight, unmarked copy. For math professor Kaplan, the history of zero is a lens for looking not only into the evolution of mathematics but into very nature of human thought. "Where did the familiar hollow circle that we use to denote zero come from? That's a story fraught with mystery, and Mr. Kaplan tells it well".--"Wall Street Journal". 38 illustrations..
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The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero Paperback - 2000
by Robert Kaplan; Ellen Kaplan (Illustrator)
For math professor Kaplan, the history of zero is a lens for looking not only into the evolution of mathematics but into very nature of human thought. "Where did the familiar hollow circle that we use to denote zero come from? That's a story fraught with mystery, and Mr. Kaplan tells it well".--"Wall Street Journal". 38 illustrations.
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Zero began its career as two wedges pressed into a wet lump of clay, in the days when a superb piece of mental engineering gave us the art of counting.
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- Title The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero
- Author Robert Kaplan; Ellen Kaplan (Illustrator)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Later Printing
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
- Date 2000-12-07
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780195142372 / 0195142373
- Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 7.73 x 4.68 x 0.6 in (19.63 x 11.89 x 1.52 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Zero (The number)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99029000
- Dewey Decimal Code 513
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