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 course have typically received previous introductions to standard real analysis and abstract algebra, but few have studied formal logic. Most of the notes have been used several times in class and revised in the light of that experience. The earlier chapters could be used as the basis of a course at the upper undergraduate level, but the work as a whole, including the later applications, may be more suited to a beginning graduate course. This prefacedescribes my motivationsand objectives in writingthe book. For the most part, these remarks are addressed to the potential instructor. Mathematical understanding develops by a mysterious interplay between intuitive insight and symbolic manipulation. Nonstandard analysis requires an enhanced sensitivity to the particular symbolic form that is used to ex press our intuitions, and so the subject poses some unique and challenging pedagogical issues. The most fundamental ofthese is how to turn the trans fer principle into a working tool of mathematical practice. I have found it vi Preface unproductive to try to give a proof of this principle by introducing the formal Tarskian semantics for first-order languages and working through the proofofLos's theorem.
By:
Robert Goldblatt
Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
Volume: 188
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 155mm,
Spine: 16mm
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9781461268413
ISBN 10: 1461268419
Series: Graduate Texts in Mathematics
Pages: 293
Publication Date: 03 October 2012
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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.
Reviews for Lectures on the Hyperreals: An Introduction to Nonstandard Analysis
R. Goldblatt Lectures on the Hyperreals An Introduction to Nonstandard Analysis Suitable for a graduate course . . . could be covered in an advanced undergraduate course . . . The author's ideas on how to achieve both intelligibility and rigor . . . will be useful reading for anyone intending to teach nonstandard analysis. -AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
