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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Indians idolized it, and the Christian Church used it to repel heretics. Today it is a time bomb ticking at the heart of astrophysics. Zero, the twin of infinity, is not like other numbers. It is at once nothing and everything.
Zero has pitted East against West and faith against reason, and its persistence remains in the dark core of a black hole and the brilliant flash of the Big Bang. Today, zero is at the heart of one of the greatest scientific controversies of all time: the pursuit of a theory of everything. Within the concept of zero lies a philosophical and scientific history of humanity.
Charles Seife offers an elegant and insightful narrative that guides us from Aristotle to string theory, through Egyptian geometry, the Kabbalah, Einstein, the Chandrasekhar limit, and Stephen Hawking. Covering centuries of thought, it is a concise tour of a world of ideas, linked by the simple concept of nothing.
Pages: 256, Year of Publication: 1012, Dimensions: 12.8x12.8cm
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