Original upload date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 12:54:57 GMT
Donald Knuth coined the term "Surreal Numbers" and wrote the first book about them after lunch with the man who devised them, John Conway.
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