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Re:Is zero an even number? by jerryr on Sunday December 02, 2012 @03:01PM (#4862296)
I enjoyed these books on the history of that question:

Charles Seife's "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" (http://www.amazon.com/Zero-Biography-Dangerous-Idea-ebook/dp...)

Robert Kaplan's "The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero" (http://www.amazon.com/Nothing-that-Natural-History-ebook/dp/...)

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Re:Is zero an even number? by Someone on Sunday December 02, 2012 @03:54PM (#4862467)
The book I recommend for this is "From One to Zero". http://www.amazon.com/From-One-Zero-Georges-Ifrah/dp/0670373.... The reviews on Amazon do not make me reconsider that. "From One to Zero" comes over as both having more content per page and more pages.
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