Surreal Numbers: How Two Ex-students Turned on to Pure Mathematics and Found Total Happiness : a Mathematical Novelette by Donald Ervin Knuth, Donald Ervin Knuth
Surreal Numbers: How Two Ex-students Turned on to Pure Mathematics and Found Total Happiness : a Mathematical Novelette
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Donald Ervin Knuth, Donald Ervin Knuth
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Surreal Numbers: How Two Ex-students Turned on to Pure Mathematics and Found Total Happiness : a Mathematical Novelette

Donald Ervin Knuth, Donald Ervin Knuth

119 pages • first pub 1974 (view editions)

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Nearly 30 years ago, John Horton Conway introduced a new way to construct numbers. Donald E. Knuth, in appreciation of this revolutionary system, took a week off from work on The Art of Computer Programming to write an introduction to Conway's me...

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