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- From: edgar@math.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Non-Standard Analysis and philosophy
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 16:04:47 -0500
- Organization: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Math.
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- 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?
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- Here is an answer to a guess at what is meant by the question:
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- Robinson's nonstandard analysis is "equivalent" to the Boolean algebra
- prime ideal theorem. It is a consequence of the axiom of choice, but
- does not imply the axiom of choice. I found this in an old paper
- of W. A. J. Luxemburg.
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