http://www.amazon.com/Zero-Biography-Dangerous-Charles-Seife/dp/0140296476
I recently read Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife. It's an interesting book that discusses the importance of zero and describes its history. You might have heard that back when counting and number systems were just being started, people didn't think of a number/digit that had the value of nothing. Somebody must have thought of it some time, yes, but it was much more complicated than that. Zero turns out to have been a very controversial concept that applies to historic worldviews and modern applications.
If you're in to math, I'd certainly suggest this book. But I agree with an Amazon.com reviewer that the author is a little too flowery and poetic sometimes.
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