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- From: solan@smaug.uio.no (Svein Olav G. Nyberg)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Non-Standard Analysis and philosophy
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.203027.27202@ulrik.uio.no>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 20:30:27 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.180359.21766@ulrik.uio.no> <TORKEL.93Jan21204806@bast.sics.se>
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- In article <TORKEL.93Jan21204806@bast.sics.se>, torkel@sics.se (Torkel
- Franzen) writes:
- |> In article <1993Jan21.180359.21766@ulrik.uio.no> solan@smaug.uio.no
- |> (Svein Olav G. Nyberg) writes:
- |>
- |> >Under which philosophies of mathematics is non-standard
- |> >analysis possible, and to what extent?
- |>
- |> Your question makes no apparent sense. Non-standard analysis is simply a
- |> field of mathematics that exists, hence is possible.
-
- I am serious, Torkel. Surely finitist mathematicians will not
- allow for infinitely large integers. And rumors have it that
- Martin-Lof's attempts to fit non-standard analysis into the
- Constructive Mathematics programme (mathematics as possible
- under a certain philosophy of mathematics) yields a weaker sort
- of non-standard analysis than the standard non-standard analysis.
-
- My question stands.
-
-
- Solan
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