zero (the number)

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zero (the number)

Zero the hero

2012
Zero believes that he is a hero, but the counting numbers think he is worthless until they get into trouble with some Roman numerals, and only Zero can help.

The nothing that is

a natural history of zero
2000
Explains how people can learn about the evolution of mathematics by studying the history of the number zero.

Zero is not nothing

1978
Discusses the importance of zero in the decimal system and its many uses.

What's zero?

2002
Simple text and photographs introduce the concept of zero, including what results when zero is added to or subtracted from a number.

The nothing that is

a natural history of zero
1999
Explains how people can learn about the evolution of mathematics by studying the history of the number zero.

Zero

the biography of a dangerous idea
2000
Examines the history of the battle over the meaning of the number zero from its birth as an Eastern philosophical concept to its significance in superstring theory.

A place for Zero

a math adventure
2003
As Zero searches to find his place, he learns of his additive and multiplicative identities, and then he establishes place value.

Zero is the leaves on the tree

2009
An illustrated introduction to zero as both a number and abstract idea that follows a group of children on a adventure in search of zero.

Zero

is it something? is it nothing?
1989
Discusses the meaning and mathematical possibilities of the number zero.

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