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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

Index Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea is a book by American author and journalist Charles Seife. [1]

23 relations: Alpha & Omega (book), Amazon (company), Apophatic theology, Babylonia, Charles Seife, Division by zero, Empty set, Everything, Ex nihilo, Fox News, Mathematical Association of America, Mu (negative), Names for the number 0 in English, Nihilism, Nothing, Nothing comes from nothing, PEN American Center, The Washington Post, Tom Clancy, USS Yorktown (CG-48), Viking Press, Yes and no, 0.

Alpha & Omega (book)

Alpha & Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe is the second non-fiction book by Charles Seife, published by Viking, a division of Penguin Putnam, in 2003.

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington that was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994.

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Apophatic theology

Apophatic theology, also known as negative theology, is a form of theological thinking and religious practice which attempts to approach God, the Divine, by negation, to speak only in terms of what may not be said about the perfect goodness that is God.

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Babylonia

Babylonia was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq).

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Charles Seife

Charles Seife is an American author and journalist, a professor at New York University.

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Division by zero

In mathematics, division by zero is division where the divisor (denominator) is zero.

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Empty set

In mathematics, and more specifically set theory, the empty set or null set is the unique set having no elements; its size or cardinality (count of elements in a set) is zero.

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Everything

Everything (or every thing), is all that exists; the opposite of nothing, or its complement.

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Ex nihilo

Ex nihilo is a Latin phrase meaning "out of nothing".

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Fox News

Fox News (officially known as the Fox News Channel, commonly abbreviated to FNC) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.

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Mathematical Association of America

The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level.

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Mu (negative)

The Japanese and Korean term mu or Chinese wú, meaning "not have; without", is a key word in Buddhism, especially Zen traditions.

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Names for the number 0 in English

There are names for the number 0 in English and related concepts, and there are concomitant names for the decades whose tens column contains the number 0.

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Nihilism

Nihilism is the philosophical viewpoint that suggests the denial or lack of belief towards the reputedly meaningful aspects of life.

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Nothing

Nothing is a concept denoting the absence of something, and is associated with nothingness.

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Nothing comes from nothing

Nothing comes from nothing (ex nihilo nihil fit) is a philosophical expression of a thesis first argued by Parmenides.

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PEN American Center

PEN American Center (PEN), founded in 1922 and based in New York City, works to advance literature, defend free expression, and foster international literary fellowship.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Tom Clancy

Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013) was an American novelist best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science storylines set during and after the Cold War.

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USS Yorktown (CG-48)

USS Yorktown (DDG-48/CG-48) was a in the United States Navy from 1984 to 2004, named for the American Revolutionary War Battle of Yorktown.

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Viking Press

Viking Press is an American publishing company now owned by Penguin Random House.

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Yes and no

Yes and no, or word pairs with a similar usage, are expressions of the affirmative and the negative, respectively, in several languages including English.

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0

0 (zero) is both a number and the numerical digit used to represent that number in numerals.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero:_The_Biography_of_a_Dangerous_Idea

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