books.google.co.uk - What conceptual blind spot kept the ancient Greeks (unlike the Indians and Maya) from developing a concept of zero? Why did St. Augustine equate nothingness with the Devil? What tortuous means did 17th-century scientists employ in their attempts to create a vacuum? And why do contemporary quantum physicists...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Book_of_Nothing.html?id=sU_K0wbBeugC&q=problem&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Book of Nothing
