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[[Conway's On Numbers and Games]]
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[[Conway's On Numbers and Games|Conway's On Numbers and Games]]
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📌 Brief Summary
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*On Numbers and Games* (ONAG), authored by John Horton Conway in 1976, is a foundational treatise in combinatorial game theory. It introduces the concept of "surreal numbers," an algebraically closed field that encompasses both the real numbers and infinitely large/infinitesimal quantities, constructed through a recursive process of defining numbers via sets of previously defined numbers.
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* **The Role of Infinitesimals:** A significant contribution of ONAG is the formalization of infinitesimals within a rigorous, non-standard analytic context. By treating $\epsilon$ (an infinitesimal) and $\omega$ (an infinite ordinal) as algebraic entities that obey standard arithmetic laws, Conway provided a toolset for analyzing games that may last an infinite number of moves or possess "fuzzy" values (games that are neither greater than, less than, nor equal to zero).
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🔗 Knowledge Connections
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* Related Topics: [[Combinatorial Game Theory]], [[Surreal Numbers]], [[Transfinite Induction]], [[Non-standard Analysis]]
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* Projects/Contexts: [[The construction of the field of Surreal Numbers]], [[Analysis of impartial and partizan games (e.g., Hackenbush, Go, Chess)]]
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* Related Topics: [[Combinatorial Game Theory|Combinatorial Game Theory]], [[Surreal Numbers|Surreal Numbers]], Transfinite Induction, Non-standard Analysis
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* Projects/Contexts: The construction of the field of Surreal Numbers, Analysis of impartial and partizan games (e.g., Hackenbush, Go, Chess)
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* Contradictions/Notes: While ONAG provides the algebraic foundation for surreal numbers, modern computational implementations often use more efficient "dyadic" representations rather than the full set-theoretic construction to avoid the complexities of transfinite induction in finite memory.
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Last updated: 2026-04-16
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