Showing posts with label Donald Knuth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Donald Knuth. Show all posts

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/