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 The Tower of Mathematics is the Tower of Babel inverted: its voices grow more
coherent as it rises. The image of it is based on Pieter Brueghel’s “Little Tower of
Babel” (1554).
ROBERT KAPLAN AND ELLEN KAPLAN
Illustrations by Ellen Kaplan
2003
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The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero
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