On numbers and games

Description:

"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: Game theory,  Number theory,  Zwei-Personen-Spiel,  Zahl,  Spieltheorie,  Zahlentheorie,  Théorie des jeux,  Théorie des nombres,  Qa241 .c69 2001,  519.3