There are no tell-all interviews with the number one or any of zero's other neighbors on the number line. Of course, Seife's book is not a typical biography. Zero won the 2001 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Book. Even though zero is a fundamental idea for the modern science, initially the notion of a complete absence got a largely negative, sometimes hostile, treatment by the Western world and Greco-Roman philosophy. The book offers a comprehensive look at number 0 and its controverting role as one of the great paradoxes of human thought and history since its invention by the ancient Babylonians or the Indian people. The book was initially released on February 7, 2000, by Viking. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea is a non-fiction book by American author and journalist Charles Seife.
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