Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero

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Stanford University Press, 1993 - Literary Criticism - 111 pages
This book portrays the introduction of the mathematical sign zero as a major signifying event, both within the writing of numbers and as an emblem of parallel events in other sign systems.

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TitleSignifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero
Critical theory. Mathematics
Language, Discourse, Society
AuthorBrian Rotman
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherStanford University Press, 1993
ISBN0804721297, 9780804721295
Length111 pages
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Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Mathematics / History & Philosophy
Philosophy / Movements / Existentialism
Social Science / Sociology / General
  
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