Tag: zero

  • Zero is New Olds

    A second part of reporting my thoughts upon reading “Zero: the biography of a dangerous idea” by C. Seidel. Recall that my work centers upon orientation upon objects as the significant philosophical issue of our time. The excerpt pictures above gives a manner by which to apprehend the coupling of history and idea that informs…

  • Zero is Old New(s)

    I’m reading “Zero: the biography of a dangerous idea” by C Seife. It starts off telling us about the properties of 0. And thus how weird it is. But, it never tells us why such mathematical properties are such. For example: Why does 0 x 4 = 0 ? A quick search on the web…