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  title info:
    title: Lectures on the Hyperreals
    sub title: an Introduction to Nonstandard Analysis
  name:
    name part: Goldblatt, Robert.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1998
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 293 pages)
  abstract: This is an introduction to nonstandard analysis based on a course of lectures given several times by the author. It is suitable for use as a text at the beginning graduate or upper undergraduate level, or for self-study by anyone familiar with elementary real analysis. It presents nonstandard analysis not just as a theory about infinitely small and large numbers, but as a radically different way of viewing many standard mathematical concepts and constructions; a source of new ideas, objects and proofs; and a wellspring of powerful new principles of reasoning (transfer, overflow, saturation, enlargement, hyperfinite approximation etc.). The book begins with the ultrapower construction of hyperreal number systems, and proceeds to develop one-variable calculus, analysis and topology from the nonstandard perspective, emphasizing the role of the transfer principle as a working tool of mathematical practice. It then sets out the theory of enlargements of fragments of the mathematical universe, providing a foundation for the full-scale development of the nonstandard methodology. The final chapters apply this to a number of topics, including Loeb measure theory and its relation to Lebesgue measure on the real line, Ramsey's Theorem, nonstandard constructions of p-adic numbers and power series, and nonstandard proofs of the Stone representation theorem for Boolean algebras and the Hahn-Banach theorem. Features of the text include an early introduction of the ideas of internal, external and hyperfinite sets, and a more axiomatic set- theoretic approach to enlargements than the usual one based on superstructures.
  table of contents: What are the Hyperreals?- Large Sets -- Ultrapower Construction of the Hyperreals -- The Transfer Principle -- Hyperreals Great and Small -- Convergence of Sequences and Series -- Continuous Functions -- Differentiation -- The Riemann Integral -- Topology of the Reals -- Internal and External Sets -- Internal Functions and Hyperfinite Sets -- Universes and Frameworks -- The Existence of Nonstandard Entities -- Permanence, Comprehensiveness, Saturation -- Loeb Measure -- Ramsey Theory -- Completion by Enlargement -- Hyperfinite Approximation -- Books on Nonstandard Analysis.
  note: by Robert Goldblatt.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  classification: QA331.5
  classification: 515.8
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Graduate texts in mathematics ; 188
  identifier: 9781461206156 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1461206154 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781461268413
  identifier: 1461268419
  identifier: 1461206154
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    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 121227
    record change date: 20260422200358.8
    record identifier: in00003566103
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng