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Title: Solid Historical Study
Review: This book is a good read for those who like narrative style and are fairly comfortable with the histories of eastern and western civilization. Kaplan gives some possible morphological etymology sources for the modern use of zero; both in place-holding and actual morphology of the character. If you're not interested in these aspects of historical study, then I would not recommend this text.Kaplan has a meandering writing style and expects the reader to hold several balls in the air while he rounds out his points. The text was fairly informative and I would recommend to anyone who is interested in historical study, not mathematical analysis.People seem to have complained because the book is not written in concise bullet points. However, I would suggest that Kaplan accomplishes his goal. Whether or not you're interested in the HISTORY of zero is the real question.
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