Timeline for Is there a source linking Robinson's work in wing theory with his theory of infinitesimals?
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| Feb 9, 2014 at 13:36 | comment | added | Mikhail Katz | Semen Samsonovich Kutateladze is my coauthor on a number of papers. He is the one who mentioned the other day that there is such a connection. The fact that his brief survey at 1306.4049 does not mention it does not indicate that there is no connection. | |
| Feb 9, 2014 at 13:27 | comment | added | Zurab Silagadze | It seems Kutateladze in arxiv.org/abs/1306.4049 also does not mention this fact. | |
| Feb 9, 2014 at 8:31 | comment | added | Mikhail Katz | That's what I hope to find out. Notice that Dauben was apparently unaware of the fact that Robinson's work in applied mathematics exploited infinitesimals; at least I don't recall him mentioning this. | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 11:50 | comment | added | Zurab Silagadze | I admit that I was to hasty. Maybe there was such a connection, at least unconsciously. | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 11:16 | comment | added | Mikhail Katz | Your quote from Robinson concerning Skolem's models is certainly appropriate. Note however that Robinson words himself carefully here: Robinson's theory was in part inspired by Skolem, implying there may have been other influences. In fact there definitely were other influences, such as the work of Hewitt (1948) and of Los (1955) both of which are cited in the book. | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 11:04 | comment | added | Mikhail Katz | I am familiar in detail with Dauben's book. With all due respect to its author, there are some serious mathematical errors in it. Also, Dauben does not actually claim that there was no connection. It is hard to see why you feel that "hardly any other source" would find such a connection. | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 10:23 | history | answered | Zurab Silagadze | CC BY-SA 3.0 |