The continuity program between Cantor and nonstandard analysis. (Q1106822)

By the continuity program the author means analytically oriented investigations admitting operations with infinitely small and/or infinitely large quantities. Between Cantor (1874) as one pole and the \(\Omega\)-analysis (Schmieden/Laugwitz 1958) and nonstandard analysis (Robinson 1966) as the other pole there are a lot of papers dealing with this program at least in a broader sense. In the present paper the author investigates in particular attempts made by \textit{N. Wiener} [A new theory of measurement (1921)], \textit{L. Neder} [Modell einer Differentialrechnung mit aktual unendlich kleinen Größen erster Ordnung, Math. Ann. 118, 251-262 (1941; Zbl 0025.39701)] and above all \textit{L. Chwistek} (several papers, 1936-1938). The author attributes with some caution to Chwistek's attempt the role of a missing link between the abovementioned two poles.