zondag 1 mei 2011

Yoko Ogawa over de ontdekking van het cijfer 0

................. of hoe zelfs een absolute alfa zoals ik, wiskunde mooi kan vinden

"The ancient Greeks thougth there was no need to count something that was nothing. And since it was nothing, they held that it was impossible to express it as a figure. So someone had to overcome this reasonable assumption, someone had to figure out how to express nothing as a number. An unknown man from India made nonexistence exist."

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