num_pages: 248
description: A "biography" of the most vexing and troublesome number in human history reveals how the Babylonians invented it, why the Greeks were afraid of it and the Hindus worshipped, the role it played in hunting down heretics in the Middle Ages, and its current place in the Y2K issue. Original.
language: English
title: Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
titlecomplete: Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
genres: Audiobook, Physics, Philosophy, Biography, Science, Nonfiction, Mathematics, History, Microhistory, Popular Science
ratings_count: 10482
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers
publisher: Viking Adult