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- From: ross@tarski.tmc.edu (David Ross)
- Subject: Re: nonstandard analysis
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.234035.1668@news.Hawaii.Edu>
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:40:35 GMT
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- In article <24210@galaxy.ucr.edu> baez@guitar.ucr.edu (john baez) writes:
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- >By now, so much has been done standardly that the advantages of nonstandard
- >analysis, if any, are not enough to make many mathematicians want to retool
- >and go nonstandard.
-
- There are many results in analysis, especially probability theory, for which
- the only known proofs use nonstandard analysis.
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- >Are there are any speedup theorems about nonstandard analysis? E.g.,
- >I'm sure there must be standard proofs that can be shortened by an
- >arbitrarily large factor using nonstandard analysis, but has this
- >been shown?
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- Henson and Keisler, 'The strength of nonstandard analysis', J. Symbolic Logic,
- 1986. Also, Henson, Kaufmann, and Keisler, JSL, 1985.
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- - David
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- David Ross, Dept. of Math., Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu HI 96822
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