Analysis of Seife's Zero

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea Summary The Book I read was Charles Seife’s “Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea”, which is centered around the number zero, but ends up explaining the history and evolution of mathematics as we know it today, the book starts explaining the dawn of mathematics when it was nothing more than a simple counting method man used to count their possessions, such as sheep. From the counting …

…they struggled with the 0/0 problem with differentiation more than I did in calc 1! J I would recommend this book to anyone who wishes to learn the history of mathematics, or anyone who would like a new spin on the things they already know. This book may not do anything for some people, but for some it could shake the very foundations of the math and science that they’ve known for most of their lives.