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- Title
Zero: an Integrative Spiritual Perspective with One and Infinity.
- Authors
Nandram, Sharda S.; Bindlish, Puneet K.; Joshi, Ankur; Dhital, Vishwanath
- Abstract
The world of numbers keeps us intrigued for one reason or the other. From negative numbers to imaginary numbers and from various constants to peculiar ratios, they never cease to surprise us. And our curiosity and imagination keeps on inspiring us to look for these patterns in nature. Consequently leading the way for discoveries that are important to meeting not only our material goals but also spiritual ones at the same time. However, due to an extraordinary reliance of modern applied science on numbers, we have generated more scholarly interest, especially in the last few centuries, around the application of numbers to the material realm as compared to the spiritual. Amidst our attention to the peculiar or special numbers and ratios, there are some numbers -- or rather concepts -- that still look in our face, inviting us to explore a whole new world of possibilities all over again. Though these concepts laid the foundation of modern day mathematics as we use it, yet at times we take them for granted and are not usually interested in revisiting our understanding about their nature, their past and future possibilities. In this chapter, we revisit three of these foundational concepts -- Zero, One and Infinity (ZOI) from an integrative spiritual perspective.
- Subjects
ZERO (The number); NEGATIVE numbers; INFINITY (Mathematics); NUMBER systems; RATIO &; proportion
- Publication
Value Inquiry Book Series, 2023, Vol 395, p479
- ISSN
0929-8436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/9789004691568_027