The Origin and Significance of Zero: An Interdisciplinary Perspective - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004691553 ISBN 13 : 9789004691551

Editeur : Brill, 2024

Synopsis

Winner of the 2024 Outstanding Academic Titles award in Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)

Zero has been axial in human development, but the origin and discovery of zero has never been satisfactorily addressed by a comprehensive, systematic and above all interdisciplinary research program. In this volume, over 40 international scholars explore zero under four broad themes: history; religion, philosophy & linguistics; arts; and mathematics & the sciences. Some propose that the invention/discovery of zero may have been facilitated by the prior evolution of a sophisticated concept of Nothingness or Emptiness (as it is understood in non-European traditions); and conversely, inhibited by the absence of, or aversion to, such a concept of Nothingness in the West. But not all scholars agree. Join the debate.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Peter Gobets is an independent researcher, specializing in philosophy, linguistics and the history of science and mathematics. He has authored three books including a philosophical novel. In the early 1990s, he drafted the original Zero Project, formally launched in 2015.

Robert Lawrence Kuhn (B.A., S.M., Ph.D.) is creator and host of Closer To Truth (science and philosophy, TV and web). He has written or edited over thirty books, chairs The Kuhn Foundation, and received the China Reform Friendship Medal.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004691553
• ISBN 13: 9789004691551
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 788
• Éditeur: Gobets Peter, Kuhn Robert Lawrence
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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