Examples of discrete -- continuous in analysis

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Authors Alain Robert

Publication date 18 May 1993

zbMATH Keywords

\(p\)-adic analysisCantor setcontinuousdiscretediscrete wavefractalsnonstandard analysisSierpiński's gasket

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and miscellaneous specific topics (00A99) Nonstandard analysis (26E35) Fractals (28A80)

Review text

[For the entire collection see Zbl 0758.00020.] This is an interesting mathematical essay, discussing many examples of continuous and discrete items arising in analysis, and pointing out some surprising connections between them. The Cantor set \(\{0,1\}^ \mathbb{N}\) and Sierpiński's gasket are related to the Pascal's triangle of binomial coefficients and to \(p\)-adic numbers. The same triangle leads to a discrete wave and a difference equation of parabolic type. The author emphasizes the strong relations between fractals, \(p\)-adic numbers and nonstandard analysis.

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