![]() ![]() ![]() The clash has led to holy wars and persecutions, philosophical disputes and profound scientific discoveries. The power of zero lies in such a contradiction, and civilization has struggled with it, alternatively seeking to ban and to embrace zero and infinity. Equally powerful and dangerous is its inseparable counterpart, infinity, for both it and zero invoke to many the divine power that created an infinite universe from the void. ![]() By book's end, no reader will dispute Seife's claim that zero is among the most fertile-and therefore most dangerous-ideas that humanity has devised. With clever devices such as humorously titled and subtitled chapters numbered from zero to infinity, Seife keeps the tone as light as his subject matter is deep. In a lively and literate first book, science journalist Seife takes readers on a historical, mathematical and scientific journey from the infinitesimal to the infinite. ![]()
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