Zero -The Biography of a Dangerous Idea - Charles Seife
Summary
A history of the use of zero as a number. Invented by the Babylonians, and developed by the Hindus, the fear of using it in the West held back Western scientific development
How I discovered it
Recommended by good reads (I think!)
How the book changed me
I never really had an appreciation for zero as much as I do know, and for how things that seem obvious to us now actually took millennia for humans to figure out
Details
Archimedes was close to discovering the value of zero when he was murdered by a Roman soldier, consigning Western mathematics to darkness for 7 centuries
