Monday, June 27, 2016

Don Knuth Explains the Surreals


Wonderful new video from Numberphile, of Donald Knuth describing where "surreal numbers" came from:



If you missed it, less than a year ago Jim Propp ran this great post on the surreals at his MathEnchantments blog:

https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2015/08/12/the-life-of-games/



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