Zero - Charles Seife [89]
beauty of
differential
linear
quadratic
escape velocity
Euler, Leonhard
event horizon
evil
exclusion principle
Feynman, Richard
Fibonacci
five-based (quinary) system
fluxions
fractions
free energy machines
French Revolution
galaxies
see also universe
Galileo Galilei
gases
plasma
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
gematria
geometry
Cartesian coordinates in
Egyptian invention of
projective
God
Aristotelian doctrine as proof of
complex numbers and
Pascal’s wager and
universe created by
golden ratio
Grandi, Guido
Graves, Robert
gravitational lenses
gravity
light bent by
Greeks
number-philosophy of
numerals of
guitar strings
Guy, Richard
Halley, Edmund
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Hardy, Thomas
harmonic series
Hawking, Stephen
heat death
Hebrew creation myths
Hebrew numerals
Heisenberg, Werner
Hertz, Heinrich
Hilbert, David
Hinduism
Hippasus
“Hollow Men, The” (Eliot)
Hooke, Robert
Hubble, Edwin
imaginary numbers
India
infinitesimals
infinite vacuum
infinite zeros
infinity
Euler and
in Indian mathematics
limit and
and measuring area and volume
Pascal’s wager and
Renaissance and
of universe
vanishing point and
integers
integration
interference
irrationality
irrational numbers
irregular shapes, measuring of
Islam
Jansenists
Jesuits
Jesus
Jews
John I, Pope
Julian Date
kabbalism
Kelvin, William Thomson, Lord
Kepler, Johannes
Koran
Kronecker, Leopold
Lamoreaux, Steven
Laplace, Pierre-Simon
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
length
Leonardo da Vinci
L’Hôpital, Guillaume-François-Antoine de
Liber Abaci (Fibonacci)
light
bending of
interference in
speed of
ultraviolet
limit
line, slope of
linear equations
lottery
Lucretius
Luther, Martin
Maclaurin, Colin
Maimonides, Moses
Manichaean heresy
mass
inflation of
mathematics
beauty in
birth of
Indian
Mayans
calendar of
numerals of
Michelson, Albert
millennium, controversy over start of
Millis, Marc
Mohammed
Monge, Gaspard
monochord
Morley, Edward
motion
of planets
multiplication
by zero
musical scale
Muslims
myriads
mysticism, Jewish
NASA
nature
Nature
nautilus
negative numbers
square roots of
neutron star
Newton, Isaac
calculus of
Nicholas of Cusa
Number: The Language of Science (Danzig)
numbers and counting
Indian
starting with zero
numerals
Arabic
Babylonian
Mayan
omicron
“On Poetry: A Rhapsody” (Swift)
orders
ordinal numbers
Oresme, Nicholas
origin of zero
painting and drawing, dimension in
parabola
Parmenides
Parthenon
particle accelerators
particles
string theory and
virtual
Pascal, Blaise
experiments of
wager of
Pascal, Étienne
Pauli, Wolfgang
Pensées (Pascal)
pentagram
perpetual-motion machines
perspective, in painting and drawing
photoelectric effect
photons
physics
Planck, Max
plane, complex
planets:
motion of
Pythagorean model of
see also universe
plasma
point
vanishing
Polder, Dik
pole
polynomials
Poncelet, Jean-Victor
probability
projective geometry
Ptolemy
Puthoff, Harold
Pythagoras, Pythagoreans
planetary model of
quadratic polynomials and equations
quanta
quantum leap
quantum mechanics
string theory and
quantum sail
quarks
quartic polynomials
quinary system
quintic polynomials
rate times time equals distance
rationality, rational numbers
ratios
golden
Rayleigh-Jeans law
real numbers
Rees, Martin
Reformation
relativity
string theory and
Renaissance
renormalization
retrograde motion
Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard
Rig Veda
Romans
numerals of
Scaliger, Joseph
Schrödinger equation
scientific revolution
sets
Seven Years’ War
sexagesimal system
Shakespeare, William
Shiva
Sierpinski, Waclaw
singularities
essential
naked
slope
of tangent
space-time
space travel
speed of light
sphere
square
diagonal of
square numbers
square roots of negative numbers
stain, measuring of
standard candles
stars
Cepheid
collapsing of
light bent around
movement of
statistical mechanics
steady-state theory
Stefan-Boltzmann equation
Stone Age
string theory