Charles Seife - Zero, The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

Basic book nothing too exciting but an interesting book with lots of useless knowledge. Like the following:

"Dionysius, a monk in charge of determining the dates for Easter, got the date of Christ's birth wrong. The sources agree that Mary and Joseph feld the wrath of king Herod, since Herod had heard a prophecy about a newborn Messiah. But Herod died in 3 BC, and most scholars believe the birth was in 4 BC."

Nice to know that our calendar is all messed up because of math (and of course the dislike of 0...there was never a zero year) Fascinating how a concept especially in the west just never was well liked. Just because of a number. Other interesting quote:

"What is man in nature?...a mean between nothing and everything" - Blaise Pascal

and finally

"Leibniz thought that i was a bizarre mix between existence and nonexistence, something like a cross between 1 and 0."

There is Leibniz again...where is newton? ; - )