Friday, November 4, 2022 3:00 pm
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3:00 pm
EDT (GMT -04:00)
Kieran Mastel, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
"Surreal Numbers and Games"
Surreal numbers were introduced in Donald Knuth’s book Surreal Numbers: How Two Ex-Students Turned on to Pure Mathematics and Found True Happiness, and the full theory was developed by Conway in his book On Numbers and Games. In this talk, I will introduce surreal numbers via partisan games and discuss their properties as a number system. I will introduce the technique of chilling that makes these concepts relevant to the analysis of Go endgames.
MC 4020