- Game theory, Number theory, Zwei-Personen-Spiel, Zahl
"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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- Author
- John Horton Conway
- First published
- 1976
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Vieweg Verlagsgesellschaft, Academic Pr, CRC Press LLC
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9781568811277
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