Scientific American spoke to Rojas about this history, the deeply engaging humanity of mathematics and the egos at play in defining the mathematical language we take for granted today.
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Math of the Bard: Shakespeare used a 'crooked figure' for a zero in times when it wasn't widely used
In this case, the zero is capable of transforming 100,000 ... Shakespeare's plays registered the 16th-century crisis of classical mathematics in the face of newer ideas. But they also offered ...
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