The continuity program between Cantor and nonstandard analysis.

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(88)90065-1MaRDI QIDQ1106822zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bernd J. Arnold

Publication date 1988

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(88)90065-1

zbMATH Keywords

continuity programinfinitely small and infinitely large quantitiesL. ChwistekL. NederN. Wienernonstandard analysisset theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03)

Review text

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.

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