Nonstandard calculus
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Nonstandard calculus
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In mathematics, nonstandard calculus is the modern application of infinitesimals, in the sense of nonstandard analysis, to infinitesimal calculus. It provides a rigorous justification for some arguments in calculus that were previously considered merely heuristic. Non-rigorous calculations with infinitesimals were widely used before Karl Weierstrass sought to replace them with the-definition of limit starting in the 1870s. For almost one hundred years thereafter, mathematicians such as Richard C
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Modern application of infinitesimals
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonstandard_calculus
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2004-05-08T21:20:43Z
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2024-09-02T10:27:28Z
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