Nonstandard Analysis for the Working Mathematician (Mathematics and Its Applications (closed)): v. 510 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0792363418 ISBN 13: 9780792363415

Publisher: Springer, 2000

Synopsis

This book is addressed to mathematicians working in analysis and its applications. The aim is to provide an understandable introduction to the basic theory of non-standard analysis and to illuminate some of its most striking applications. Problems are posed in all chapters.
The opening chapter of the book presents a simplified form of the general theory that is suitable for the results of calculus and basic real analysis. The presentation is intended to facilitate the acquisition of basic skills in the subject, so that a reader who begins with no background in mathematical logic should find it relatively easy to continue. The book then proceeds with the full theory.
Following Part I, each chapter takes up a different field for applications, beginning with a gentle introduction that even non-experts can read with profit. The remainder of each chapter is then addressed to experts, showing how to use non-standard analysis in the search for solutions of open problems and how to obtain rich new structures that produce deep insights into the field under consideration. The particular applications discussed here are in functional analysis including operator theory, probability theory including stochastic processes, and economics including game theory and financial mathematics. In working through this book the reader should gain many new and helpful insights into the enterprise of mathematics.
Audience: This work will be of interest to specialists whose work involves real functions, probability theory, stochastic processes, logic and foundations. Much of the book, in particular the introductory Part I, can be used in a graduate course.

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From the Back Cover

Starting with a simple formulation accessible to all mathematicians, this second edition is designed to provide a thorough introduction to nonstandard analysis. Nonstandard analysis is now a well-developed, powerful instrument for solving open problems in almost all disciplines of mathematics; it is often used as a ‘secret weapon’ by those who know the technique.

This book illuminates the subject with some of the most striking applications in analysis, topology, functional analysis, probability and stochastic analysis, as well as applications in economics and combinatorial number theory. The first chapter is designed to facilitate the beginner in learning this technique by starting with calculus and basic real analysis. The second chapter provides the reader with the most important tools of nonstandard analysis: the transfer principle, Keisler’s internal definition principle, the spill-over principle, and saturation. The remaining chapters of the book study different fields for applications; each begins with a gentle introduction before then exploring solutions to open problems.

All chapters within this second edition have been reworked and updated, with several completely new chapters on compactifications and number theory. Nonstandard Analysis for the Working Mathematician will be accessible to both experts and non-experts, and will ultimately provide many new and helpful insights into the enterprise of mathematics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792363418
• ISBN 13: 9780792363415
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Loeb Peter A.