01596cam a2200289 i 4500 275632096 TxAuBib 20150224120000.0 140620s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014024462 9781137279842 1137279842 TxAuBib rda Aczel, Amir D. Finding zero : a mathematician's odyssey to uncover the origins of numbers / Amir D. Aczel. First edition. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. x, 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands of years been shrouded in mystery. Finding Zero is an adventure filled saga of Amir Aczel's lifelong obsession: to find the original sources of our numerals. Aczel has doggedly crisscrossed the ancient world, scouring dusty, moldy texts, cross examining so-called scholars who offered wildly differing sets of facts, and ultimately penetrating deep into a Cambodian jungle to find a definitive proof... "-- Provided by publisher. 20150224. Numerals History. Zero (The number) History.