Book:Robert Kaplan/The Nothing That Is

Robert Kaplan: The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero

Published $\text {1999}$, Allen Lane

ISBN 0-713-99284-0

Subject Matter

• Zero

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

A NOTE TO THE READER

ZERO: THE LENS

ONE: MIND PUTS ITS STAMP ON MATTER

TWO: THE GREEKS HAD NO WORD FOR IT

THREE: TRAVELERS' TALES

FOUR: EASTWARD

FIVE: DUST

SIX: INTO THE UNKNOWN

SEVEN: A PARADIGM SHIFTS

EIGHT: A MAYAN INTERLUDE: THE DARK SIDE OF COUNTING

NINE: MUCH ADO

1 Envoys of Emptiness

2 A Sypher in Augrim

3 This Year, Next Year, Sometime, Never

4 Still It Moves

TEN: ENTERTAINING ANGELS

1 The Power of Nothing

2 Knowing Squat

3 The Fabric of This Vision

4 Leaving No Wrack Behind

ELEVEN: ALMOST NOTHIN

1 Slouching Toward Bethlehem

2 Two Victories, a Defeat and Distant Thunder

TWELVE: IS IT OUT THERE?

THIRTEEN: BATH-HOUSE WITH SPIDERS

FOURTEEN: A LAND WHERE IT WAS ALWAYS AFTERNOON

FIFTEEN: WAS LEAR RIGHT?

SIXTEEN: THE UNTHINKABLE

INDEX