The Story of 0

This work unfolds the ides of "nothing" out of a Titian painting of Danae and the shower of gold. The philological and pictorial argument links, across several languages, such seemingly disparate concepts as money, coins, mothers, subjects, courtiers, prostitutes, ciphers, codes and the codex form. The book is a cultural history of the "cipher" zero as code and as nothing as th... (展开全部)