Looking at graphs through infinitesimal microscopes, windows and telescopes

DOI10.2307/3615886zbMath0499.26008OpenAlexW6757859WikidataQ56455148 ScholiaQ56455148MaRDI QIDQ3964818

David Tall

Publication date: 1980

Published in: The Mathematical Gazette (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3615886

zbMATH Keywords

formal power seriesinfinitesimal calculussuperreal numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonstandard models in mathematics (03H05) Nonstandard analysis (26E35)

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