Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

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Ketika Leonardo da Pisa (kelak dikenal juga sebagai Fibonacci) memperkenalkan angka nol ke Eropa, dia banyak dihujat kaum terpelajar di sana. Alasannya, selain angka tersebut berasal dari negeri kaum kafir, Arab (sebenarnya awal mula sejarah angka nol berasal dari peradaban Hindu, tapi diadaptasi, 'dipermudah', dan 'diperluas' oleh ilmuwan arab Al-Khawarizmi), orang2 Eropa juga merasa terancam oleh kehadiran angka ini. Dengan hadirnya angka nol, bisa dikatakan sistem numeral Romawi yang terdisi dari abjad (misal I untuk 1, V untuk 5, dll) akan menjadi usang. The ZeroBook 13 has a 70Wh battery, which Infinix claims provides an 'all-day' battery life without getting into specifics. As an audiobook, "Zero" benefits greatly from Bob Souer's engaging narration. He brings energy and enthusiasm to the historical events and mathematical concepts covered. The storytelling style makes the ideas not just understandable, but gripping. The book mixes humor and metaphor effortlessly, capturing the listener's interest.

The author tells us how this mathematical debate becomes one with the religious debate about the nature of God, and whether He has limits. We see how the ancients Greeks took their debates seriously indeed, and the price of having an unpopular opinion was far worse that getting hateful text messages.

Basterebbe un'analisi anche superficiale delle varie situazioni per rendersi conto che le posizioni in campo erano almeno sei o sette e che la decisione finale che di solito avviene attraverso compromessi che soddisfano solo una parte, è stata anche questa volta la regola utilizzata. Saviano must be one of the few writers alive (if not the only one)who can take a topic such as drugs and constantly morph it though the book, drawing connections to everything. Read this, and you will never look at cocaine or illegal drugs the same way again. Inevitably the story of zero involves many other mathematical and scientific concepts. We cover a fairly broad history of mathematics herein but it is a considerably small book so much of this felt like the sidenotes were usurping the lead role. Seife eventually managed to illuminate a significant relationship with zero for each diversion and he did so in a relatively accessible manner but it will help to have some basic maths. Kitab depressiv hislərimi körüklədi... Dünyaya müəllifin gözü ilə baxmaq dözülməzdi... Kitabın sətirləri arasında özünün də bundan məmnun olmadığını, həzz almadığını hiss edirsən... Yolu budur, bu yol odur... a b Suzanne Ruthven, Compass Points - The Pagan Writers' Guide: Writing for the Pagan and MB&S Markets (2013), p. 25, ISBN 1782791078

Rachel Clarke is a palliative care doctor whose most recent book is Breathtaking: The UK’s Human Story of Covid (Little, Brown). Seife stresses that zero is still a dangerous idea today. Its unintuitive nature leads people to misunderstand concepts like statistical uncertainty and vaccine efficacy. He ties our uneasiness with zero to cognitive biases like our inability to reason correctly about probability. Seife's discussions of these modern issues are insightful, showing the continued relevance of zero's contradictions. It’s a good thing that Saviano is not a drug pusher because if he was, more people would be addicted. Bruno Fuduli - pressured into giving up an honest life to to become a high stakes cocaine broker the Camorra, he became a police informant of his own free will, but left to get into the cocaine trade for himself when he found witness protection disagreeable.Most of this book reads like he did no investigating of his own and merely perused newspaper articles on the topic and rewrote them. The ZeroBook 13 is a reasonably well-built machine. The aluminum construction gives it a premium look and feel. The lid has a nice tension to it and moves decisively with minimal flex. The only part of the design that feels a bit flimsy is the flex on the area above the keyboard. This doesn’t affect the area below as there is no flex on the actual keyboard. Display and Sound I enjoyed the actual writing of the book: clear and easy to follow, slightly humorous at times (in a Stephen Hawking kind of way), and clever. I like the chapter titles (beginning with Chapter Zero and ending with Chapter Infinity) and the fact that Seife is not biased. He simply conveys historical and scientific fact, not allowing his opinions to leak through his words. I don't like when scientists make it obvious that they're not only proving theories but also trying to disprove God. Seife never does that--he just presents ideas and explains how zero went from being reviled and feared to respected to something that needs to be erased once more. You have to love a book that has a section giving instructions on how to build your own wormhole-time machine. All you need to do is build a wormhole and attach one end of it to something very heavy and attach the other end to something travelling at 90% of the speed of light. It gets easier from there, although you do have to wait forty six years and haul the thing to another planet. Un'analisi anche non troppo approfondita permette sempre e comunque di evidenziare differenze tra le varie parti, siano esse politiche, sociali o altro.

Where Zero starts to show its seams is in Seife's rhetorical ability, which stretches itself thin even over so thin a volume. He's too dramatic for my taste, especially as he recounted the attitudes and fate of the Pythagoreans. And he's always eager to remind us of how "powerful" zero is. While I agree that zero is a pretty cool number, the constant refrain felt somewhat forced after a while, pulling me out of the book instead of keeping me comfortably ensconced in this little tutorial. Seife devotes only cursory glances at the philosophical arguments offered for or against the acceptance of zero; he tells us about Aristotle's rejection of zero but goes into little detail. While I'm sure he wanted to avoid turning the book into a text on Aristotelian philosophy, I feel like there are gaps here that, if not filled, could have been covered with a more attractive carpet. Seife argues that zero is more than just a placeholder or mathematical symbol. It represents a dangerous idea that has constantly challenged our understanding of reality and the nature of existence. The ancient Greeks rejected zero as an absurdity and evidence of mankind's flawed understanding of the cosmos. Philosophers like Aristotle saw zero as an affront to reason itself. How can "nothing" be something? For centuries, zero languished on the fringe of respectable mathematics. Another one of the best books that I've read recently. Seife does an excellent job of turning zero into a subject. It is a number, and it is an idea; it is a troublemaker, and it is a problem solver. The biography is very interesting, beginning with history and philosophy and ending with science and the modern age. My grade 11 math teacher gave this to me, and I remember reading it and loving it. Here I am, three years later, returning to Zero for a second read. No longer the gullible high school student (now a gullible university student!), I'm apt to be more critical of Zero. Nevertheless, it stands up to a second reading and both inspires and informs. The Kaibil - one of the most brutal fighting forces I've ever heard of, jungle counter-insurgents from Guatemala. It's where George R.R. Martin stole that killing a puppy thing from, but that's the least of it. Very scary stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaibilesKelak teori ini dengan bantuan Einstein, Born, Heissenberg, Dirac, de Broglie, Schrodinger, Pauli, Bohr, dsb melahirkan cabang baru dalam fisika yang disebut fisika modern, teorinya dikenal sebagai Teori Kuantum. (dan sejak saat itu pula, apa2 yang ada embel-embel 'kuantum'-nya akan dianggap hebat, bahkan hingga saat ini, suatu seminar pelatihan akan tampak hebat jika diberi nama kuantum learning, dll) :-p

Meski teori Hawking belum final, tapi konsekuensi pergolakan fisika ini tak ayal menyeret kaum filsuf dan agamawan. di satu sisi mereka mengklaim ada penciptaan (ada Tuhan), di sisi lain ada klaim tidak ada penciptaan (tidak ada Tuhan). Perdebatan tanpa akhir ini tidak akan mereda sebelum mereka bisa membuktikan, apa yang terjadi saat waktu sama dengan NOL?!! Oya, alasan mengapa Einstein digelari jenius terbesar sepanjang masa (semua ikon kata 'jenius' pasti mengacu padanya, mulai dr komik hingga film) adalah berbeda dengan teori kuantum yang hasil keroyokan, teori relativitas lahir, diurus, dan dikembangkan sendirian oleh Einstein! nyaris bantuan dari ilmuwan lain hanya berkonstribusi 'secuil'. Bisa dikatakan karya tunggal Einstein! The ZeroBook 13 has the same basic design as the previous generation model. Largely inspired by the MacBook Pro models of yore, the design features a silver aluminum construction throughout. The lid has a few flashy markings on it with an illuminated Zero logo. Akhirnya, dengan mempertimbangkan hal tersebut, bangsa Eropa menerima penggunaan bilangan nol. Namun, seandainya mereka dapat meramal masa depan dan melihat efek angka nol bagi peradaban modern, niscaya mereka akan mati-matian mempertahankan sistem bilangan Romawi dan menolak kehadiran angka nol. Sometimes, however, you shouldn’t pull punches. Sometimes, in particular when trying to make people aware, you can’t be nice and sensitive.We are delighted to announce the publication of Professor Paul Ekins’ book ‘ Stopping Climate Change: Policies for Real Zero’ (Routledge, publication date November 23, 2023). The stuff about the financial end of it, the money laundering, and how so many banks are essentially propped up by cocaine money. What a mess. MacDougald, Park (July 13, 2017). "Where Did the Alt-Right Come From? This Book Finds Some Uncomfortable Answers". New York. New York City: New York Media. One cool design feature is a row of red LEDs, which turn on whenever you put the laptop in the Overdrive performance mode using the switch on the side. The other two profiles don’t get any lighting. I wouldn’t have minded green lighting for the Economy mode and white lighting for the default Balanced profile. Quella famosa macchina del fango tanto richiamata in alcune trasmissioni televisive è proprio ciò che può minare il concreto di questo libro.