John Horton Conway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "He invented a new system of numbers, the surreal numbers, which are closely related to certain games and have been the subject of a mathematical novel by Donald Knuth. He also invented a nomenclature for exceedingly large numbers, the Conway chained arrow notation. Much of this is discussed in the 0th part of ONAG.
He is also known for the invention of the Game of Life, one of the early and still celebrated examples of a cellular automaton."
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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