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On numbers and games

John Horton Conway · 1976

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"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.

Book details

Year
1976
Language
English
Publisher
CRC Press LLC
Editions
5
ISBN
9780429062438

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