Foundations of analysis over surreal number fields /

In this volume, a tower of surreal number fields is defined, each being a real-closed field having a canonical formal power series structure and many other higher order properties. Formal versions of such theorems as the Implicit Function Theorem hold over such fields. The Main Theorem states that e...

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Main Authors: Alling, Norman L. (Author)
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.
Published: North-Holland ; Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co.,
Publisher Address: Amsterdam ; New York : New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :
Publication Dates: 1987.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: North-Holland mathematics studies ; 141
Notas de matema tica ; 117
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/03040208/141
Summary: In this volume, a tower of surreal number fields is defined, each being a real-closed field having a canonical formal power series structure and many other higher order properties. Formal versions of such theorems as the Implicit Function Theorem hold over such fields. The Main Theorem states that every formal power series in a finite number of variables over a surreal field has a positive radius of hyper-convergence within which it may be evaluated. Analytic functions of several surreal and surcomplex variables can then be defined and studied. Some first results in the one variable case are derived. A primer on Conway's field of surreal numbers is also given. Throughout the manuscript, great efforts have been made to make the volume fairly self-contained. Much exposition is given. Many references are cited. While experts may want to turn quickly to new results, students should be able to find the explanation of many elementary points of interest. On the other hand, many new results are given, and much mathematics is brought to bear on the problems at hand.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xvi, 373 pages).
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-358) and index.
ISBN: 9780444702265
0444702261
9780080872520
0080872522
1281798053
9781281798053
Index Number: QA1
CLC: O1