ENGLISH

Surreal numbers: how two ex-students turned on to pure mathematics and found total happiness: a mathematical novelette

By Donald E. Knuth

Book information

Publisher
Addison-Wesley Pub. Co
Year
1974
ISBN
0201038129, 9780201038125
LCC
QA241 .K688
Open Library ID
OL5045774M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (3269021 bytes)
Pages
113\113
Library
kolxoz
DPI
600
Scanned
yes
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

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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