On Numbers and Games (L.M.S. Monographs ; No. 6)

By John Horton Conway.

On Numbers and Games (L.M.S. Monographs ; No. 6)

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ONAG, as the book is commonly known, is one of those rare publications that sprang to life in a moment of creative energy and has remained influential for over a quarter of a century. Originally written to define the relation between the theories of transfinite numbers and mathematical games, the resulting work is a mathematically sophisticated but eminently enjoyable guide to game theory. 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 a...

ISBN(s)

0121863506, 9780121863500

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