Description |
xii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
Note |
Includes index. |
Bibliography |
Notes and bibliography available on the World Wide Web. |
Contents |
0. The lens -- 1. Mind puts its stamp on matter -- 2. The Greeks had no word for it -- 3. Travelers' tales -- 4. Eastward -- 5. Dust -- 6. Into the unknown -- 7. A paradigm shifts -- 8. A Mayan interlude : the dark side of counting -- 9. Much ado -- 10. Entertaining angels -- 11. Almost nothing -- 12. Is it out there? -- 13. Bath-house with spiders -- 14. A land where it was always afternoon -- ch. 15. Was Lear right? -- 16. The unthinkable. |
Subject |
Zero (The number)
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ISBN |
0195128427 cloth alkaline paper |
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