Zero – The biography of a Dangerous Idea (book review)

Title :- Zero – The biography of a Dangerous Idea

By :- Charles Seife

Published :- Penguin Books, USA (2000) Paperback (230 pages).

Outline :- There were several early numbering systems, including 6 that survives as the bases of time (12 hours), and the base of measuring angle (90 degrees for right angle, or 360 degrees around the world). However it was the invention of zero that forms the bases of our dominant decimal system. This number also helped with the concept of negative numbers and went on to defining concepts such as the beginning of time, the edge of space etc. Numbers and the mathematics that followed had various national sources of development, and is truly a world wide discovery.