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Published by Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: ZBK Books, Carlstadt, NJ, U.S.A.
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Condition: good. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). Pages and cover are intact. Used book in good and clean conditions. Limited notes marks and highlighting may be present. May show signs of normal shelf wear and bends on edges. Item may be missing CDs or access codes. May include library marks.
Published by Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: ZBK Books, Carlstadt, NJ, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: good. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). Pages and cover are intact. Used book in good and clean conditions. Limited notes marks and highlighting may be present. May show signs of normal shelf wear and bends on edges. Item may be missing CDs or access codes. May include library marks.
Published by Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: ZBK Books, Carlstadt, NJ, U.S.A.
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Condition: acceptable. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). May contain writing, notes, highlighting, bends or folds. Text is readable, book is clean, and pages and cover mostly intact. May show normal wear and tear. Item may be missing CD. May include library marks.
Published by Oxford University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
Published by Oxford University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Condition: Acceptable. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
Published by Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Book
Condition: Good. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Published by Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
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Condition: Very Good. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
Published by Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: Red's Corner LLC, Tucker, GA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Acceptable. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). All orders ship by next business day! This is a used paperback book. Has moderate wear on cover and/or pages. Has no markings on pages. Spine has been opened/creased. For USED books, we cannot guarantee supplemental materials such as CDs, DVDs, access codes and other materials. We are a small company and very thankful for your business!.
Published by Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: Blue Vase Books, Interlochen, MI, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.
Published by Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: New Legacy Books, Annandale, NJ, U.S.A.
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paperback. Condition: VeryGood. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). Fast shipping and order satisfaction guaranteed. A portion of your purchase benefits Non-Profit Organizations, First Aid and Fire Stations!.
Published by Oxford University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator).
Published by Oxford University Press, USA, 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 3.75.
Published by Oxford University Press, USA, 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 3.75.
Published by Oxford University Press, USA, 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: ThriftBooks-Reno, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 3.75.
Published by Oxford University Press, USA, 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: ThriftBooks-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 3.75.
Published by Oxford University Press, USA, 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 3.75.
Published by Oxford University Press, USA, 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 3.75.
Published by Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Published by Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.: Oxford Univ Pr, 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: Utah Book and Magazine, Salt Lake City Utah, UT, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). 2nd Edition. 225 pages. Text clean. Book tight. Owner name on half title page. Condition of Book Fine.
Published by Oxford University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: HPB Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
Published by Oxford University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: HPB-Ruby, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
Published by Oxford University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: Salish Sea Book Company, Olympia, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book in very good condition, jacket/cover may show signs of wear.
Published by Oxford University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: HPB-Diamond, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
Published by Oxford University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). A symbol for what is not there, an emptiness that increases any number it's added to, an inexhaustible and indispensable paradox. As we enter the year 2000, zero is once again making its presence felt. Nothing itself, it makes possible a myriad of calculations. Indeed, without zero mathematics as we know it would not exist. And without mathematics our understanding of the universe would be vastly impoverished. But where did this nothing, this hollow circle, come from? Who created it? And what, exactly, does it mean?Robert Kaplan's The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero begins as a mystery story, taking us back to Sumerian times, and then to Greece and India, piecing together the way the idea of a symbol for nothing evolved. Kaplan shows us just how handicapped our ancestors were in trying to figure large sums without the aid of the zero. (Try multiplying CLXIV by XXIV). Remarkably, even the Greeks, mathematically brilliant as they were, didn't have a zero--or did they? We follow the trail to the East where, a millennium or two ago, Indian mathematicians took another crucial step. By treating zero for the first time like any other number, instead of a unique symbol, they allowed huge new leaps forward in computation, and also in our understanding of how mathematics itself works.In the Middle Ages, this mathematical knowledge swept across western Europe via Arab traders. At first it was called "dangerous Saracen magic" and considered the Devil's work, but it wasn't long before merchants and bankers saw how handy this magic was, and used it to develop tools like double-entry bookkeeping. Zero quickly became an essential part of increasingly sophisticated equations, and with the invention of calculus, one could say it was a linchpin of the scientific revolution. And now even deeper layers of this thing that is nothing are coming to light: our computers speak only in zeros and ones, and modern mathematics shows that zero alone can be made to generate everything.Robert Kaplan serves up all this history with immense zest and humor; his writing is full of anecdotes and asides, and quotations from Shakespeare to Wallace Stevens extend the book's context far beyond the scope of scientific specialists. For Kaplan, the history of zero is a lens for looking not only into the evolution of mathematics but into very nature of human thought. He points out how the history of mathematics is a process of recursive abstraction: how once a symbol is created to represent an idea, that symbol itself gives rise to new operations that in turn lead to new ideas. The beauty of mathematics is that even though we invent it, we seem to be discovering something that already exists.The joy of that discovery shines from Kaplan's pages, as he ranges from Archimedes to Einstein, making fascinating connections between mathematical insights from every age and culture. A tour de force of science history, The Nothing That Is takes us through the hollow circle that leads to infinity.
Published by Oxford University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: HPB-Red, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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paperback. Condition: Good. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
Published by Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting. 0.72.
Published by Oxford Univ Press, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A., 1999
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: The Unskoolbookshop, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). Slight cover wear. Nice, clean, tight, unmarked copy. For math professor Kaplan, the history of zero is a lens for looking not only into the evolution of mathematics but into very nature of human thought. "Where did the familiar hollow circle that we use to denote zero come from? That's a story fraught with mystery, and Mr. Kaplan tells it well".--"Wall Street Journal". 38 illustrations. Book.
Published by Oxford University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: HPB-Emerald, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
Published by Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Good. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator). SHIPS FROM USA. Used books have different signs of use and do not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. All images are Stock Photos, not of the actual item. book.
Published by Oxford University Press, U.S.A. December 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0195142373ISBN 13: 9780195142372
Seller: R Bookmark, Youngtown, AZ, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Good. Kaplan, Ellen (illustrator).