Nearly 30 years ago, John Horton Conway introduced a new way to construct numbers. Donald E. Knuth, in appreciation of this revolutionary system, took a week of

These notes provide a formal introduction to the theory of surreal numbers in a clear and lucid style.

Originally written to define the relation between the theories of transfinite numbers and mathematical games, the resulting work is a mathematically sophisticat

The political regime of global capitalism reduces the world to an endless network of numbers within numbers, but how many of us really understand what numbers a