The notion of infinite measuring number and its relevance in the intuition of infinity

DOI10.1007/BF00697740zbMath0458.03025OpenAlexW2060794689MaRDI QIDQ1151394

David Tall

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Educational Studies in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00697740

zbMATH Keywords

infinitely large and infinitely small quantitiessuperreal number system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Nonstandard models (03H99)

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