Chapter 3: History: Much Ado About Less than Nothing

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures ix
4. Chapter 1: Introduction 1
5. Chapter 2: The Problem 10
6. Chapter 3: History: Much Ado About Less than Nothing 18
7. Chapter 4: History: Meaningful and Meaningless Expressions 43
8. Chapter 5: History: Making Radically New Mathematics 80
9. Chapter 6: Math Is Rather Flexible 110
10. Chapter 7: Making a Meaningful Math 174
11. Notes 235
12. Further reading 249
13. Acknowledgments 259
14. Index 261