Descrição do livro
We use it every day. In our phones. In our computers. In our bank accounts. In the clocks on our walls and the code that runs the internet. Yet for most of human history, zero did not exist. How did humanity learn to represent nothing? Why did ancient civilizations count, trade, build cities, and map the stars without the most important number ever discovered? And how did a simple circle become the foundation of mathematics, science, technology, finance, artificial intelligence, and the modern world? In ZERO, Vishud Vishnoi takes readers on a journey across thousands of years and multiple civilizations to uncover one of history’s greatest intellectual breakthroughs. From the deserts of ancient India to the temples of the Maya, from Greek philosophers who feared the void to modern physicists searching for the origins of the universe, this is the story of humanity’s struggle to understand nothing. Along the way you will discover: • Why zero arrived later than every other number • The forgotten Indian genius who transformed mathematics • Why some of history’s greatest thinkers resisted the idea of nothing • How zero made computers, algorithms, and artificial intelligence possible • Why the modern world would collapse without it • What the mystery of zero reveals about reality itself Blending history, science, philosophy, mathematics, and narrative storytelling, ZERO reveals the extraordinary story behind the most powerful symbol ever created. Because sometimes the most important thing in the universe is the thing that isn’t there.
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