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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
from Penguin (Non-Classics)

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Here's a curious occurence. "The Indian name for zero is sunya, meaning "empty," which the Arabs turned into sifr. When some Western scholars described the new number to their colleagues, they turned sifr into a Latin-sounding word, yielding zephirus, which is the root of our word zero. Other... more info

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Chagall: A Biography
from Knopf

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Chagall: A Biography The author has both a gifted ear and a gifted eye. She is able to contextualize Chagall's art, as all good biographers' must, from tsarist Russia catapulting toward revolution and the diaspora of Russian Jews into Europe amidst the swirling decades leading up to the rise of... more info

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