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I am doing research on the surreal number field and I would like to see the original papers by John Conway. I have attempted to obtain them but the results have been unsuccessful. I would like to know where to find this report.

Leonardo Lovera
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    Are you perhaps looking for Conway's "On Numbers and Games", 1976? This note seems to connect the above book to that quote. – Brian61354270 Feb 02 '20 at 21:56
  • Some of the results were also presented in Surrel Numbers, a novella by Don Knuth, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/484458.Surreal_Numbers – Gerry Myerson Feb 02 '20 at 22:04
  • Thanks for noting that this paper is contained in ONAG. Actually, Conway constructed the numbers on a research paper of the University of Calgary, no. 149, and then, Knuth published his book. – Leonardo Lovera Feb 03 '20 at 00:36

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It was published as the book "On Numbers and Games", still in print I think (I bought a copy 5 years back). Chapter 0 is still called "all numbers great and small" and lays out the definitions. There is also a re-edition (expanded) of Winning ways (for your mathematical plays), which builds on that book.

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Found it! https://youtu.be/mPn2AdMH7UQ?t=83 "All Numbers Great and Small, Research Paper No. 149, Calgary, Alberta, Canada: The University of Calgary, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, 1972." https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266267540_All_Numbers_Great_and_Small it's not exactly as cited but very close

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