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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

Several authors have conjectured that Conway's field of surreal numbers, equipped with the exponential function of Kruskal and Gonshor, can be described as a field of transseries and admits a compatible differential structure of Hardy-type.…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Alessandro Berarducci , Vincenzo Mantova

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We define a multiplication on the surreal numbers as higher inductive-inductive types.

Logic · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Jean S. Joseph

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 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

We study the relationship between fields of transseries and residue fields of convex subrings of non-standard extensions of the real numbers. This was motivated by a question of Todorov and Vernaeve, answered in this paper.

Logic · Mathematics 2012-05-08 Matthias Aschenbrenner , Isaac Goldbring

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

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

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
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