Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

By
Charles Seife
Charles Seife
2000 • 260 pages

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31 books

Philosophy

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
The Myth of Sisyphus
Language, Truth, and Logic
What the Buddha Taught
The scientific outlook
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
Irrational Man : A Study in Existential Philosophy

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25 books

History

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A People's History of the United States
Early Indians
The Ministry of Truth
Humans
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
The Drowned and the Saved
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

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4 books

Religion

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Concise History of Buddhism
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
The Noble Eightfold Path: Way to the End of Suffering
The Dhammapada

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4 books

Mathematics

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Utsob Roy
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
Introduction to Logic: And to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Logicomix
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture

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17 books

Science

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Utsob Roy
The scientific outlook
Six Easy Pieces
Lost in Math
On Intelligence
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
The Fabric of the Cosmos

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4 books

Semi Pop

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Utsob Roy
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
Infinite Powers
Why Does E=mc2?
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

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7 books

Math Science

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שיחות על תורת המשחקים: אסטרטגיות, החלטות ותעתועי חשיבה
The Name of the Wind
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Fermat's last theorem
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
Euclid's Elements
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

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14 books

Math Stats

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The Art of Statistics
Infinite Powers
A Mind For Numbers
Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
How to Lie with Statistics
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

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490 books

Social History

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Spiritomb
Paradox of Plenty
The Age of Edison
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Voices from Chernobyl
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium

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791 books

History

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Spiritomb
The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Malcolm X
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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51 books

Math

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The Code for Love and Heartbreak
The Biggest Number in the World: A Journey to the Edge of Mathematics
Hypatia of Alexandria
The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
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