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The present article surveys surreal numbers with an informal approach, from their very first definition to their structure of universal real closed analytic and exponential field. Then we proceed to give an overview of the recent…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-11-09 Vincenzo Mantova , Mickaël Matusinski

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 show that the natural embedding of the differential field of transseries into Conway's field of surreal numbers with the Berarducci-Mantova derivation is an elementary embedding. We also prove that any Hardy field embeds into the field…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-08-12 Matthias Aschenbrenner , Lou van den Dries , Joris van der Hoeven

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

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

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

We show that \'Ecalle's transseries and their variants (LE and EL-series) can be interpreted as functions from positive infinite surreal numbers to surreal numbers. The same holds for a much larger class of formal series, here called…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Alessandro Berarducci , Vincenzo Mantova

The proper class of Conway's surreal numbers forms a rich totally ordered algebraically closed field with many arithmetic and algebraic properties close to those of real numbers, the ordinals, and infinitesimal numbers. In this paper, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Karol Pąk , Cezary Kaliszyk

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

Germs of real-valued functions, surreal numbers, and transseries are three ways to enrich the real continuum by infinitesimal and infinite quantities. Each of these comes with naturally interacting notions of ordering and derivative. The…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-12-14 Matthias Aschenbrenner , Lou van den Dries , Joris van der Hoeven

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

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

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

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

Surreal numbers form the ultimate extension of the field of real numbers with infinitely large and small quantities and in particular with all ordinal numbers. Hyperseries can be regarded as the ultimate formal device for representing…

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

In [26], the algebraico-tree-theoretic simplicity hierarchical structure of J. H. Conway's ordered field $\mathbf{No}$ of surreal numbers was brought to the fore and employed to provide necessary and sufficient conditions for an ordered…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Philip Ehrlich , Elliot Kaplan

This paper concerns pairs of models of the theory of the differential field of logarithmic-exponential transseries that are tame as a pair of real closed fields. That is, the smaller model is bounded inside the larger model and there exists…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-08-14 Nigel Pynn-Coates

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

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 study the automorphism group of the field of surreal numbers. Our main structure theorem presents a decomposition of this group into a product of five significant factors. Using the representation of surreal numbers as generalized power…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Elliot Kaplan , Lothar Sebastian Krapp , Michele Serra
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