If you overwrite a field in a subclass of a class, the subclass has two fields with the same name(and different type)?

Question

I have 3 classes:

public class Alpha {
    public Number number;
}

public class Beta extends Alpha {
    public String number;
}

public class Gama extends Beta {
    public int number;
}

Why does the following code compile? And, why does the test pass without any runtime errors?

@Test
public void test() {
    final Beta a = new Gama();
    a.number = "its a string";
    ((Alpha) a).number = 13;
    ((Gama) a).number = 42;

    assertEquals("its a string", a.number);
    assertEquals(13, ((Alpha) a).number);
    assertEquals(42, ((Gama) a).number);
}