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Surreal Numbers

by Donald E. Knuth

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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 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. The book's primary aim...

First published 1974 130 pages
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Mathematics
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DDC 512.7 LCC QA-0241.00000000.K668 1974 MathematicsNumber theorySurreal numbers
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ISBN 0201038129 English
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