Signifying Nothing
Subtitle: The Semiotics of Zero
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: July 1, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780804721295
Subjects: History & Philosophy; Semiotics; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Philosophy; Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory
First sentence: The first purpose of this book is to portray the introduction of the mathematical sign zero into Western consciousness in the thirteenth century as a major signifying event, both in its own right within the writing of numbers and as the emblem of parallel movements in other sign systems.