Zero:

The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

Chapter 0 Null and Void
Chapter 1 Nothing Doing: The Origin of Zero
- Life Without Zero
- The Birth of Zero
- The Fearsome Properties of Nothing
Chapter 2 Nothing Comes of Nothing: The West Rejects Zero
- The Origin of Greek Number-Philosophy
- The Infinite, the Void, and the West
- Blind Dates
- The Zeroth Number
- The Gaping Void
Chapter 3 Nothing Ventured ... Nothing Gained: Zero Goes East
- Zero's reincarnation
- The Arab Numeral
- I Am That I Am: Nothing
- Zero's Triumph
Chapter 4 The Infinite God of Nothing: The Theology of Zero
- The Nutshell Cracked
- Zero and the Void
- The Divine Wager
Chapter 5 Infinite Zeros and Infidel Mathematicians: Zero and the Scientific Revolution
- The Infinite Zeros
- Zero and the Mystical Calculus
- The End of Mysticism
Chapter 6 Infinity's Twin: The Infinite Nature of Zero
- The Imaginary
- Point and Counterpoint
- The Infinite Zero
Chapter 7 Absolute Zeros: The Physics of Zero
- Zero Heat
- The Quantum Zero: Infinite Energy
- The Relativistic Zero: The Black Hole
- Something for Nothing?
Chapter 8 Zero Hour at Ground Zero: Zero at the Edge of Space and Time
- Zero Banished: String Theory
- The Zeroth Hour: The Big Bang
Chapter 9 Zero's Final Victory: End Time
- To Infinity and Beyond