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Donald Ervin Knuth |
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Mathematics · |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Addison-Wesley (October 01, 1974)
Measurements: 8.5"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 0.25"(d), 0.4 lbs.
ISBN: 9780201038125 |
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<P> 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 <A HREF="http://www.awl.com/cseng/titles/0-201-89683-4"><B>The Art of Computer Programming</B></A> 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. </P> <P> <BLOCKQUOTE>The book's primary aim, Knuth explains in a postscript, is not so much to teach Conway's theory as "to teach how one might go about developing such a theory." He continues: "Therefore, as the two characters in this book gradually explore and build up Conway's number system, I have recorded their false starts and frustrations as well as their good ideas. I wanted to give a reasonably faithful portrayal of the important principles, techniques, joys, |
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