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This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero:_The_Biography_of_a_Dangerous_Idea


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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea is a book by American author and journalist Charles Seife. The book offers a comprehensive look at number 0 and its controverting role as one of the great paradoxes of human thought and history since its invention by the ancient Babylonians. Even though zero is a fundamental idea for the modern science, initially the notion of a complete absence got a largely negative, sometimes hostile, treatment by the Western world and Greco-Roman philosophy. Zero won 2001 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Book.