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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 488
Utgivningsdatum: 2024-10-29
Förlag: Princeton University Press
Illustrationer: 62 b/w illus.
Antal komponenter: 1
ISBN: 9780691266404

Genius at Play

Name: Genius at Play
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Author: Siobhan Roberts
ISBN: 9780691266404

The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway

av Siobhan Roberts

Häftad, Engelska, 2024-10-29

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A multifaceted biography of a brilliant mathematician and iconoclast A mathematician unlike any other, John Horton Conway (19372020) possessed a rock stars charisma, a polymaths promiscuous curiosity, and a sly sense of humor. Conway found fame as a barefoot professor at Cambridge, where he discovered the Conway groups in mathematical symmetry and the aptly named surreal numbers. He also invented the cult classic Game of Life, a cellular automaton that demonstrates how simplicity generates complexityand provides an analogy for mathematics and the entire universe. Moving to Princeton in 1987, Conway used ropes, dice, pennies, coat hangers, and the occasional Slinky to illustrate his winning imagination and share his nerdish delights. Genius at Play tells the story of this ambassador-at-large for the beauties and joys of mathematics, and at once lays bare Conways personal and professional idiosyncrasiesit gives an intimate look into the mind of one of the twentieth centurys most endearing and original intellectuals.

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