Zero to Infinity A Review of Charles Seife’s ZERO: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

Authors

Douglas McDougall

Volume

20

Issue

1-3

Abstract

“Nil”, “Nunca”, “Nada”, “Nil”, “Nothing”, “Zero”. Sounds of a multilingual class of mathematics, perhaps. No, it is the sounds around the family table card game as we all declare the number of tricks that we would like to take in a card game called Wizard. The speaker is telling the scorekeeper that they would not like to take any tricks. They would like to take “zero” tricks as if they could gather the zero cards. We all know that we do not want any tricks and we do our best not to take any if we declare that we want zero tricks.

First Page

241

Last Page

246

Recommended Citation

McDougall, Douglas (2023) "Zero to Infinity A Review of Charles Seife’s ZERO: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea," The Mathematics Enthusiast: Vol. 20 : No. 1 , Article 28.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54870/1551-3440.1610
Available at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/tme/vol20/iss1/28

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.54870/1551-3440.1610

Publisher

University of Montana, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library