On numbers and games /
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 re...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Natick, Mass. :
Chapman and Hall/CRC,
[2000]
©2000 |
Edición: | Second edition. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Zeroth part : On numbers ; All numbers great and small
- The class no is a field
- The real and ordinal numbers
- The structure of the general surreal number
- Algebra and analysis of numbers
- Number theory in the Land of Oz
- The curious field On₂
- Appendix to Part Zero
- First part : And games ; Playing several games at once
- Some games are already numbers
- On games and numbers
- Simplifying games
- Impartial games and the game of Nim
- How to lose when you must
- Animating functions, Welter's game and Hackenbush unrestrained
- How to play several games at once in a dozen different ways
- Ups, downs and bynumbers
- The long and the short and the small
- Epilogue.