Infinitesimals and infinites in the history of mathematics: a brief survey

DOI10.1016/j.amc.2011.08.092zbMath1255.01001OpenAlexW2004431250MaRDI QIDQ440654

Gabriele Lolli

Publication date: 19 August 2012

Published in: Applied Mathematics and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amc.2011.08.092

zbMATH Keywords

nonstandard analysisgrossoneinfinitesimalsindivisiblesactual infinitepotential infinite

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonstandard models in mathematics (03H05) General histories, source books (01A05)

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Metamathematical investigations on the theory of grossone ⋮ A classification of one-dimensional cellular automata using infinite computations ⋮ Grossone approach to Hutton and Euler transforms ⋮ Some paradoxes of infinity revisited ⋮ Discrete uniform and binomial distributions with infinite support ⋮ A constructive sequence algebra for the calculus of indications ⋮ Computations with Grossone-Based Infinities ⋮ Observability in the univalent universe ⋮ Nonlinear programming and grossone: quadratic programing and the role of constraint qualifications ⋮ The Olympic medals ranks, lexicographic ordering, and numerical infinities ⋮ The exact (up to infinitesimals) infinite perimeter of the Koch snowflake and its finite area ⋮ A new cutting plane method for lexicographic multi-objective integer linear programming ⋮ Fibonacci words, hyperbolic tilings and grossone ⋮ Stochastic algorithms for solving structured low-rank matrix approximation problems ⋮ A new approach to the \(Z\)-transform through infinite computation ⋮ Infinite Games on Finite Graphs Using Grossone ⋮ Solving ordinary differential equations on the Infinity Computer by working with infinitesimals numerically ⋮ A generalized Taylor method of order three for the solution of initial value problems in standard and infinity floating-point arithmetic ⋮ Infinigons of the hyperbolic plane and grossone ⋮ Planar methods and grossone for the conjugate gradient breakdown in nonlinear programming ⋮ Independence of the grossone-based infinity methodology from non-standard analysis and comments upon logical fallacies in some texts asserting the opposite

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