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The Book of Nothing

Paperback • 2001 • English

The Book of Nothing

By John D. Barrow

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About the book

How do you begin to understand the concept of nothing? Where does it begin and where does it end? From the zeros of the mathematician to the void of the philosophers, from Shakespeare to the empty set, from the ether to the quantum vacuum, from being and nothingness to creatio ex nihilo, there is much ado about nothing at the heart of things. Recent exciting discoveries in astronomy are shown to shed new light on the nature of the vacuum and its dramatic effect upon the explanation of th...Show more

Probability and statistics
Bayesian inference
Optimization

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ISBN

9780099288459

Publisher

Vintage

Published year

2001

Language

English

Original title

The Book of Nothing

Format

Paperback

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