Brian Rotman

Brian Rotman is a British-born professor who works in the United States. Trained as a mathematician and now an established philosopher, Rotman has blended semiotics, mathematics and the history of writing in his work and teaching throughout his career.

He is currently a distinguished humanities professor in the department of comparative studies at Ohio State University, has also taught at Stanford and given invited lectures at universities throughout the United States including Berkeley, MIT, Brown, Stanford, Duke, Notre Dame, Penn State, Minnesota, and Cornell. Rotman’s best known books include ''Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero'' which provides a wide-ranging exploration of the zero sign, ''Ad Infinitum... The Ghost in Turing’s Machine'', and ''Theory of Sets and Transfinite Numbers'' (written jointly with G. T. Kneebone) Provided by Wikipedia