Gobets, Peter
(ed.)
Kuhn, Robert Lawrence
(ed.)
Editorial: Brill
Colección: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 395
Número de páginas: págs.
Fecha de edición: 25-04-2024
EAN: 9789004691551
ISBN: 978-90-04-69155-1
Precio (sin IVA): 100,00 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 104,00 €
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.