Abraham Robinson

…the 1960s the German-born American Abraham Robinson similarly used nonstandard models of analysis to create a setting where the nonrigorous infinitesimal arguments of early calculus could be rehabilitated. He found that the old arguments could always be justified, usually with less trouble than the standard justifications with limits. He also…

…work of the German-born mathematician Abraham Robinson in mathematical logic, and it is best described as a variant of real analysis in which infinitesimals and infinities genuinely exist—without any paradoxes. In nonstandard analysis, for example, one can define the limit a of a sequence a_n to be the unique real…

…20th century that the logician Abraham Robinson (1918–74) showed that the notion of infinitesimal was in fact logically consistent and that, therefore, infinitesimals could be introduced as new kinds of numbers. This led to a novel way of presenting the calculus, called nonstandard analysis, which has, however, not become as…

…analysis by the German-born mathematician Abraham Robinson in the 1960s.