Game theory

: This article discusses the mathematical modelling of incentive structures. For other games (and their theories) see Game (disambiguation). For the band named Game Theory, please see Game Theory (band).

Games and numbers

John Conway developed a notation for certain complete information games and defined several operations on those games, originally in order to study Go endgames, though much of the analysis focused on Nim. This developed into combinatorial game theory.

Related Topics:
John Conway - Go - Nim - Combinatorial game theory

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In a surprising connection, he found that a certain subclass of these games can be used as numbers as described in his book On Numbers and Games, leading to the very general class of surreal numbers.

Related Topics:
On Numbers and Games - Surreal number

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