EVENT DETAILS AND ABSTRACT


Special Seminar

Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Surreal Numbers
Speaker: Professor John H. Conway
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Brief Description:
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures #4
Abstract:

The surreal numbers simultaneously generalize both the real numbers and Cantor's infinite ordinal numbers. They also include a whole host of other exotic infinite and infinitesimal numbers.
Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2000
Time: 4:00pm
Where: Tech LR 3
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Contact email: mlerma@math.nwu.edu
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