10 Aug
2011
10 Aug
'11
4:24 a.m.
Fred wrote:
All right, I'll buy it --- who's BAMO, then?
WOFL
Not 'who', but 'what'. Like many abbreviations ending 'MO', it is a mathematical olympiad.
In Knuth's "Surreal numbers" the universe is created by "JHWC", who of course is also Conway. I suppose CNWH and JHWC are two separate Divine Substances, despite being the same person; a nice reversal of theological tradition.
I wonder whether Conway is the only two deities with an Erdos number of 1... Sincerely, Adam P. Goucher