02326nam 2200553 a 450 991065638970332120230422045303.01-280-53045-697866105304580-19-802945-41-4294-0474-4(CKB)1000000000465761(EBL)273091(OCoLC)466431211(SSID)ssj0000212458(PQKBManifestationID)11201652(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000212458(PQKBWorkID)10137428(PQKB)11009176(MiAaPQ)EBC273091(EXLCZ)99100000000046576119990406d1999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe nothing that is[electronic resource] a natural history of zero /Robert Kaplan ; illustrations by Ellen KaplanOxford ;New York Oxford University Press19991 online resource (238 p.)Includes index.0-19-514237-3 0-19-512842-7 CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; A NOTE TO THE READER; ZERO: THE LENS; ONE: MIND PUTS ITS STAMP ON MATTER; TWO: THE GREEKS HAD NO WORD FOR IT; THREE: TRAVELERS' TALES; FOUR: EASTWARD; FIVE: DUST; SIX: INTO THE UNKNOWN; SEVEN: A PARADIGM SHIFTS; EIGHT: A MAYAN INTERLUDE: THE DARK SIDE OF COUNTING; NINE: MUCH ADO; TEN: ENTERTAINING ANGELS; ELEVEN: ALMOST NOTHING; TWELVE: IS IT OUT THERE?; THIRTEEN: BATH-HOUSE WITH SPIDERS; FOURTEEN: A LAND WHERE IT WAS ALWAYS AFTERNOON; FIFTEEN: WAS LEAR RIGHT?; SIXTEEN: THE UNTHINKABLE; INDEXExplores history to find evidence that humans have long struggled with the concept of zero, from the Greeks who may or may not have known of it, to the East where it was first used, to the modern-day desktop PC, which uses it as an essential letter in its computational alphabet.Zero (The number)Zero (The number)511.2/11513513.211Kaplan Robert1933-1252733Kaplan Ellen1252734MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910656389703321The nothing that is2904377UNINA