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On numbers and games

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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.

Subjects: Number theory
Game theory
Spieltheorie
Zahlentheorie
519.3
Théorie des jeux

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