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The first purpose of this book is to portray the introduction of the mathematical sign zero into Western consciousness in the thirteenth century as a major signifying event, both in its own right within the writing of numbers and as the emblem of parallel movements in other sign systems.
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Rotman, B. (1987). Opening. In: Signifying Nothing. Language, Discourse, Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18689-1_1
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