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Nonstandard analysis is a way of doing calculus and analysis with infinitesimals. The historical approach of Leibniz, Euler, and others to infinitesimal calculus was gradually replaced by epsilon, delta techniques in the context of a real continuum, in the 19th century. It was not until the 1960s that Abraham Robinson developed a theory of a hyperreal continuum that allows for a development of analysis procedurally akin to that of its founders.
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Surreal numbers, ultrapowers of $\Bbb R$, ordinal-valued functions and the slow-growing hier...
Philip Ehrlich's paper “The Absolute Arithmetic Continuum and the Unification of All Numbers Great and Small”, The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 18 (1) 2012, pp. 1-45. claims as a theorem that, in NBG, $ …
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Transfinitely iterating the Levi-Civita, Hahn or Puiseux constructions
This question was originally asked at MSE but seems too advanced, so I'm reposting it here.
In short, the idea is that many constructions for non-Archimedean fields can naturally be iterated, in some …
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Interpreting Conway's remark about using the surreals for non-standard analysis
In Conway's "On Numbers And Games," page 44, he writes:
NON-STANDARD ANALYSIS
We can of course use the Field of all numbers, or rather various small
subfields of it, as a vehicle for the techniques o …
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"Lebesgue-measurable" cardinals and real-closed fields
I understand the motivation behind measurable cardinals is to ask the question: "is there any set large enough to admit a non-trivial measure on all of its subsets?"
Hence, it's also worthwhile to as …
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Pontryagin dual of the surreal numbers?
Has any work been done on the Pontryagin dual of the surreal numbers (suitably topologized)? I have not been able to find anything and am not sure if this is still unknown.
Alternatively, has this be …