Infinitesimals

DOI10.2307/2316619MaRDI QIDQ5661882zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors A. H. Lightstone

Publication date 1972

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2316619

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to mathematical logic and foundations (03-01) Nonstandard models (03H99) Nonstandard analysis (26E35)

Cited in

(12)

• General topology (set-theoretic trend)
• Proofs and retributions, or: why Sarah can't take limits
• Toward a clarity of the extreme value theorem
• A Burgessian critique of nominalistic tendencies in contemporary mathematics and its historiography
• Who gave you the Cauchy-Weierstrass tale? The dual history of rigorous calculus
• Stevin numbers and reality
• A Cauchy-Dirac delta function
• Ten misconceptions from the history of analysis and their debunking
• Pre‐Robinson approach to the theory of infinitesimals
• Leibniz's infinitesimals: their fictionality, their modern implementations, and their foes from Berkeley to Russell and beyond
• Cauchy's continuum
• Bi-Lipschitz approximation by finite-dimensional imbeddings

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