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Conway's real closed field $\mathbf{No}$ of surreal numbers is a sweeping generalization of the real numbers and the ordinals to which a number of elementary functions such as log and exponentiation have been shown to extend. The problems…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Ovidiu Costin , Philip Ehrlich

The class of surreal numbers, denoted by $\textbf{No}$, initially proposed by Conway, is a universal ordered field in the sense that any ordered field can be embedded in it. They include in particular the real numbers and the ordinal…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-11-16 Olivier Bournez , Quentin Guilmant

In his monograph On Numbers and Games, J. H. Conway introduced a real-closed field No of surreal numbers containing the reals and the ordinals, as well as a vast array of less familiar numbers. A longstanding aim has been to develop…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-08-26 Ovidiu Costin , Philip Ehrlich , Harvey M. Friedman

The notion of surreal number was introduced by J.H. Conway in the mid 1970's: the surreal numbers constitute a linearly ordered (proper) class $No$ containing the class of all ordinal numbers ($On$) that, working within the background set…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Dimi Rocha Rangel , Hugo Luiz Mariano

Surreal numbers, have a very rich and elegant theory. This class of numbers, denoted by No, includes simultaneously the ordinal numbers and the real numbers, and forms a universal huge real closed field: It is universal in the sense that…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-01-21 Olivier Bournez , Quentin Guilmant

We make a number of observations on Conway surreal number theory which may be useful, for further developments, in both in mathematics and theoretical physics. In particular, we argue that the concepts of surreal numbers and matroids can be…

General Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 J. A. Nieto

Let No be Conway's class of surreal numbers. I will make explicit the notion of a function f on No recursively defined over some family of functions. Under some "tameness" and uniformity condition, f must satisfy some interesting…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Antongiulio Fornasiero

Conway's surreal numbers were aptly named by Knuth. This note examines how far one can get towards implementing surreals and the arithmetic operations on them so that they execute efficiently. Lazy evaluation and recursive data structures…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Lloyd Allison

Conway's field No of surreal numbers comes both with a natural total order and an additional "simplicity relation" which is also a partial order. Considering No as a doubly ordered structure for these two orderings, an isomorphic copy of No…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-05-04 Vincent Bagayoko , Joris van der Hoeven

In his monograph, H. Gonshor showed that Conway's real closed field of surreal numbers carries an exponential and logarithmic map. Subsequently, L. van den Dries and P. Ehrlich showed that it is a model of the elementary theory of the field…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2016-10-10 Salma Kuhlmann , Mickaël Matusinski

In this treatise on the theory of the continuum of the surreal numbers of J.H. Conway, is proved ,that the three different techniques and hierarchies of the continuums of the transfinite real numbers of Glayzal A. (1937) defined through…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Konstantinos E. Kyritsis

We take up Dedekind's question ''Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen?'' (''What are numbers, and would should they be?''), with the aim to describe the place that Conway's (Surreal) Numbers and Games take, or deserve to take, in the whole of…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Wolfgang Bertram

We note that if a sequence of real numbers converges to some limit, then the sequence of the corresponding strings in the surreal $+,-$ sign expansion representation converges, for a natural notion of string convergence, to the string…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-03-17 Paolo Lipparini , István Mezö

On Cuesta-Conway numbers as an extension of Cantor's ordinals: A short introduction to surreal numbers. The class of Cuesta-Conway numbers, the surreal numbers, can be defined simply, starting from their normal forms (families of…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-04-18 Labib Haddad

For any ordinal $\alpha > 0$, we show how to define a hyperexponential $E_{\omega^{\alpha}}$ and a hyperlogarithm $L_{\omega^{\alpha}}$ on the class $\mathbf{No}^{>, \succ}$ of positive infinitely large surreal numbers. Such functions are…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Vincent Bagayoko , Joris van der Hoeven

We present a novel framework for measuring the size of discrete subsets of using surreal-valued numerosity, which strictly satisfies Euclid's principle that "the whole is greater than a part". By mapping numerosities to surreal numbers via…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Ilya Shnitman

How many odd numbers are there? How many even numbers? From Galileo to Cantor, the suggestion was that there are the same number of odd, even and natural numbers, because all three sets can be mapped in one-one fashion to each other. This…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Peter Lynch , Michael Mackey

Using the sign expansion of the surreal numbers, we give a possible notion of convergence for surreal sequences.

Logic · Mathematics 2012-10-23 István Mezö

We give a presentation of Conway's surreal numbers focusing on the connections with transseries and Hardy fields and trying to simplify when possible the existing treatments.

Logic · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Alessandro Berarducci

We study subfields of surreal numbers, called hyperseries fields, that are suited to be equipped with derivations and composition laws. We show how to define embeddings on hyperseries fields that commute with transfinite sums and all…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Vincent Bagayoko
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