On numbers and games:

"By defining numbers as the strengths of positions in certain games, the author arrives at a new class, the surreal numbers, that includes both real numbers and ordinal numbers. These surreal numbers are applied in the author's mathematical analysis of game strategies."--Cover.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Conway, John Horton 1937-2020 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wellesley, Massachusetts A. K. Peters 2001
Edition:2. ed.
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Summary:"By defining numbers as the strengths of positions in certain games, the author arrives at a new class, the surreal numbers, that includes both real numbers and ordinal numbers. These surreal numbers are applied in the author's mathematical analysis of game strategies."--Cover.
Physical Description:XI, 242 S. graph. Darst.
ISBN:1568811276

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