This work unfolds the idea of "nothing" out of a Titian painting of Dana??? and the shower of gold. Jaffee offers a cultural history of the "cipher" zero as code and as nothing, as the absence of value and the place-holder constructing value. She traces the wide-ranging implications of "nothing"--not only in mathematics but also in literature.
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This work unfolds the idea of "nothing" out of a Titian painting of Dana??? and the shower of gold. Jaffee offers a cultural history of the "cipher" zero as code and as nothing, as the absence of value and the place-holder constructing value. She traces the wide-ranging implications of "nothing"--not only in mathematics but also in literature.
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