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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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How helpful is non-standard analysis?
In mathematical economics, one often faces the following problem: One wants to formalize the idea of a large, relatively anonymous group of people (an atomless measure space of agents) that all face s …
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Nonstandard analysis in probability theory
Non-standard analysis has been quite successful in settling existence questions in probability theory. Hyperfinite Loeb spaces allow for several constructions that cannot be done on standard probabili …