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Re: CVS commit: src/games/factor



On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 09:45:19PM +0400, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
> Dennis den Brok <d.den.brok%uni-bonn.de@localhost> writes:
> 
> > Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost> schrieb:
> >> I know at least one school that doesn't teach mathematical analysis
> >> using Cauchy-style definitions prefering to start from topology,
> >> I know another (quite large!) school that introduces filters as soon as
> >> possible to avoid dealing with handful of special cases, I was taught
> >> Robinson (non-Archimedean) analysis in parallel to classical one.
> >
> > AFAIK, this is also referred to as "non-standard analysis"...
> 
> This was "non-standard" half a century ago or even more. When I was taught,
> it wasn't considered non-standard, not even by those who taught classical
> analysis. That may be specific to the university, but in two distant
[...]

Lest it fails to be utterly clear to you by now, you're not going to get
what you want.  Do you just like to hear yourself talk?

Thor


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