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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
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A book about numbers that had me laughing out loud while I was on vacation. My wife could not understand how a book about math could make me laugh so much...
But any book that shows the horrible mistake that not having a Year 0 (i.e., 1 BC and 1 AD are adjancent) would have on history as well as subtraction mistakes, how infinity is really is zero's tricky friend, and make almost understandable the reason why the amazing equation "e ^ (pi * i) = -1" is true is pretty fantastic.
I laughed, I cried. Amazing book.
But any book that shows the horrible mistake that not having a Year 0 (i.e., 1 BC and 1 AD are adjancent) would have on history as well as subtraction mistakes, how infinity is really is zero's tricky friend, and make almost understandable the reason why the amazing equation "e ^ (pi * i) = -1" is true is pretty fantastic.
I laughed, I cried. Amazing book.
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Apr 12, 2007 02:19PM
Dude, this book rocks! I forgot I "read" it because I have the audio book. On my iPod.
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