About the Book: Finding Zero: A Mathematicians Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of
Numbers
The story of how we got our numbers-told through one mathematicians journey to
find zero
The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has
ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or
quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals has for thousands
of years been shrouded in mystery. Finding Zero is an adventure-filled saga of
Amir Aczels lifelong obsession: to find the original sources of our numerals.
Aczel has doggedly crisscrossed the ancient world, scouring dusty, moldy texts,
cross examining so-called scholars who offered