Aracnus on Nostr: Um texto lindo sobre como o nosso cérebro processa a ideia de zero (e, de bônus, ...

Um texto lindo sobre como o nosso cérebro processa a ideia de zero (e, de bônus, como essa representação evoluiu ao longo do tempo).

Thank you, @[url=https://mastodon.social/users/gutenberg_org]Project Gutenberg[/url] , for this!
[share author='Project Gutenberg' profile='https://mastodon.social/users/gutenberg_org'; avatar=' ; link='https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/113339980280271524'; posted='2024-10-20 13:27:31' guid='52acf9cd-ec7c195a15812d61-e12f6348' message_id='https://mastodon.social/users/gutenberg_org/statuses/113339980280271524';]How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero

Zero, which was invented late in history, is special among numbers. New studies are uncovering how the brain creates something out of nothing.

In some ways, zero is just like any other number on a number line. But a new study suggests that the mind may treat the symbol for absence differently.

By Yasemin Saplakoglu via @QuantaMagazine

[url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-human-brain-contends-with-the-strangeness-of-zero-20241018/]https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-human-brain-contends-with-the-strangeness-of-zero-20241018/[/url]

#[url=https://social.teia.bio.br/search?tag=mathematics]mathematics[/url] #[url=https://social.teia.bio.br/search?tag=neuroscience]neuroscience[/url]
[img= ]Gwalior Fort, Inscription of the Pratīhāra period cut into the rock near the Caturbhuj temple, 9th century, where first carved Zero is depicted.

via Wikipedia Commons.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Chaturbhuj_Temple,_Gwalior[/img][/share]
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