📕 Сюрреальные числа [2014] Дональд Кнут Захватывающая приключенческо-математическая история от известного и блестящего автора Дональда Кнута. Двое героев случайно находят камень с древними письменами и открывают для себя новые математические структуры. Для студентов, преподавателей и всех любителей математики. 📙 Surreal Numbers [1974] Donald E. Knuth 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, 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."