Lectures on the Hyperreals An Introduction to Nonstandard Analysis

There are good reasons to believe that nonstandard analysis, in some ver­ sion or other, will be the analysis of the future. KURT GODEL This book is a compilation and development of lecture notes written for a course on nonstandard analysis that I have now taught several times. Students taking the c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goldblatt, Robert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 1998, 1998
Edition:1st ed. 1998
Series:Graduate Texts in Mathematics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I Foundations
  • 1 What Are the Hyperreals?
  • 2 Large Sets
  • 3 Ultrapower Construction of the Hyperreals
  • 4 The Transfer Principle
  • 5 Hyperreals Great and Small
  • II Basic Analysis
  • 6 Convergence of Sequences and Series
  • 7 Continuous Functions
  • 8 Differentiation
  • 9 The Riemann Integral
  • 10 Topology of the Reals
  • III Internal and External Entities
  • 11 Internal and External Sets
  • 12 Internal Functions and Hyperfinite Sets
  • IV Nonstandard Frameworks
  • 13 Universes and Frameworks
  • 14 The Existence of Nonstandard Entities
  • 15 Permanence, Comprehensiveness, Saturation
  • V Applications
  • 16 Loeb Measure
  • 17 Ramsey Theory
  • 18 Completion by Enlargement
  • 19 Hyperfinite Approximation
  • 20 Books on Nonstandard Analysis