On numbers and games on “Books (Game Theory)”, a list by Marcelo Mesquita on TheLysts.
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Conway constructs an entirely new number system, the surreal numbers, out of the recursive structure of two-player games, blurring the line between arithmetic and combinatorial play, and produces one of the strangest and most original works of mathematics of the twentieth century.