Nonstandard analysis
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title:
Nonstandard analysis
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The history of calculus is fraught with philosophical debates about the meaning and logical validity of fluxions or infinitesimal numbers. The standard way to resolve these debates is to define the operations of calculus using limits rather than infinitesimals. Nonstandard analysis instead reformulates the calculus using a logically rigorous notion of infinitesimal numbers. Nonstandard analysis originated in the early 1960s by the mathematician Abraham Robinson. He wrote:... the idea of infinite
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Calculus using a logically rigorous notion of infinitesimal numbers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonstandard_analysis
date created:
2002-02-20T07:16:17Z
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2024-09-02T11:12:09Z
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