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Alexander Berenbeim : Introduction to the Surreal Numbers

Posted by Hunter Chase , part of the Louise Hay Logic Seminar.

At
Feb. 8, 2018, 4 p.m.
In
SEO 427
Abstract
The surreal numbers are a real closed field that are defined as a binary tree whose depth is the class of ordinals. This introduction to the surreal numbers goes over the inductive construction of the surreal numbers, as well as the definition of the arithmetic, exponential and logarithmic operations.