“... You get surreal numbers by playing games. I used to feel guilty in Cambridge that I spent all day playing games, while I was supposed to be doing mathematics. Then, when I discovered surreal numbers, I realized that playing games IS math.” FeelsScienceUsedGamesNumbersMathematicsMathI RealizedGuiltySupposed To BeSurrealPlaying GamesCambridge Author:John Horton Conway
“People think that mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit, it’s the stuff we CAN understand. It’s cats that are complicated.” PeopleThinkingStuffBitsSimpleCatMathematicsComplicated Author:John Horton Conway
