Surreal Numbers
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional | ISBN: 0201038129 | edition 1974 | PDF | 119 pages | 10,6 mb
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional | ISBN: 0201038129 | edition 1974 | PDF | 119 pages | 10,6 mb
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 method. Never content with the ordinary, Knuth wrote this introduction as a work of fiction--a novelette. If not a steamy romance, the book nonetheless shows how a young couple turned on to pure mathematics and found total happiness.
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