The Nothing that Is: A Natural History of Zero
3 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by 
Lilo37fee
from -- Irgendwo in Bayern, Bayern Germany on Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Lilo37fee from -- Irgendwo in Bayern, Bayern Germany on Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Robert Kaplan's The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero begins as a mystery story, taking us back to Sumerian times, and then to Greece and India, piecing together the way the idea of a symbol for nothing evolved.
This was an unregistered books on the shelf of the University Regensburg.
Interesting to read. It is hard to imagine that there were times without „zero“ and how important it was to invent it.
This was an unregistered books on the shelf of the University Regensburg.
Interesting to read. It is hard to imagine that there were times without „zero“ and how important it was to invent it.
Journal Entry 2 by Lilo37fee at Hochschulbibliothek (OBCZ-HSR_Bib) in Regensburg, Bayern Germany on Monday, March 5, 2018
Lilo37fee at Hochschulbibliothek (OBCZ-HSR_Bib) in Regensburg, Bayern Germany on Monday, March 5, 2018
Released 6 yrs ago (3/7/2018 UTC) at Hochschulbibliothek (OBCZ-HSR_Bib) in Regensburg, Bayern Germany
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Das Buch kommt mit zum Meetup und weil wir da am Mittwoch nur wenige sein werden, eventuell wohl ins Regal.
-- March 8, 2018
I got this book at the yesterday’s meet-up of the Bookcrossers in Regensburg. I’m happy to read a popular science book once again, especially with a mathematical topic.
-- June 20, 2018
Mmh, I expected a little bit more from this book. The first and last few chapters were weak in my opinion. At the beginning it was to much speculation and guessing about the origin of the zero, sugared with probabilities.
At the end the book drifted into philosophy (Is nothing positive or negative? Can there be physically nothing? Can something be created out of nothing?).
The chapters in between I found interesting. I liked the mathematical ways to find a result for thinks like 0⁰ or ⁰⁄₀.
Concerning the book’s typography: The text font is a bland Garamond (without kerning!) with proper set mathematical formulas. Headline: Futura Shadow (good choice to signal “nothing”) and Gill Sans (why not only Futura?). The drawings could have been black not grey.
I got this book at the yesterday’s meet-up of the Bookcrossers in Regensburg. I’m happy to read a popular science book once again, especially with a mathematical topic.
-- June 20, 2018
Mmh, I expected a little bit more from this book. The first and last few chapters were weak in my opinion. At the beginning it was to much speculation and guessing about the origin of the zero, sugared with probabilities.
At the end the book drifted into philosophy (Is nothing positive or negative? Can there be physically nothing? Can something be created out of nothing?).
The chapters in between I found interesting. I liked the mathematical ways to find a result for thinks like 0⁰ or ⁰⁄₀.
Concerning the book’s typography: The text font is a bland Garamond (without kerning!) with proper set mathematical formulas. Headline: Futura Shadow (good choice to signal “nothing”) and Gill Sans (why not only Futura?). The drawings could have been black not grey.
Habe das Buch heute mit zum Bookcrosser-Treffen in der Goldenen Ente genommen und dort gegen einen Edgar-Wallace-Krimi eingetauscht.
Liegen drei Bücher auf einem Tisch. Fünf werden weggenommen. Dann muss man zwei wieder hinlegen, damit keines mehr da ist ...
