paper

Nonstandard Analysis: Its Creator and Place

arXiv:1306.4049 · doi:10.1134/S1990478913030010

Abstract

This is a biographical sketch and tribute to Abraham Robinson (1918-1974) on the 95th anniversary of his birth with a short discussion of the place of nonstandard analysis in the present-day mathematics.

arXiv commentA part of a talk at the 22nd Summer St. Petersburg Meeting on Mathematical Analysis, June 26, 2013. Some typos are corrected