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Publication
Franco Angeli (2016), Edition: 1, 116 pages
Description
Shows how a young couple turned on to pure mathematics and found total happiness. This title is intended for those who might enjoy an engaging dialogue on abstract mathematical ideas, and those who might wish to experience how new mathematics is created.
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LibraryThing member trurl
The book is a dialogue where the characters rediscover the theory of surreal numbers. As a mathematical introduction to the subject, the book is inferior to Conway's On Numbers and Games, which covers more and is more in style of a classical mathematics text. The dialogues are too technical to have
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any literary value. If the book has any value, it has value as a recording of the process of mathematical discovery. (Although, for a working mathematician the methods presented are rather self-evident.) Show Less
LibraryThing member nocklebeast
The best math book ever. (It's not boring. It has sex in it.)
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Original publication date
1974
Physical description
116 p.; 7.87 inches
ISBN
8891728012 / 9788891728012