Charles Seife

Charles Seife is an American author, journalist, and professor at New York University. He has written extensively on scientific and mathematical topics. Quotes The ultimate goal of the Hindu was to free himself from the endless cycle of pain found in continual reincarnation and reconnect with the Nothingness that is the source and fundament of the All. For Indians, the void of Sunya was the very font of all- potential; nothingness was liberation. No surprise then that it is from this sophisticated culture that we inherit the mathematical analog of nothing, zero Seife, Charles Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea New York Viking, 2000 as quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture External links Category:Living people Category:Mathematicians from the United States