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- Title
The unreasonable effectiveness of Nonstandard Analysis.
- Authors
Sanders, Sam
- Abstract
As suggested by the title, the aim of this paper is to uncover the vast computational content of classical Nonstandard Analysis. To this end, we formulate a template |${\mathfrak{C}\mathfrak{I}}$| which converts a theorem of 'pure' Nonstandard Analysis, i.e. formulated solely with the nonstandard definitions (of continuity, integration, differentiability, convergence, compactness, etc.), into the associated effective theorem. The latter constitutes a theorem of computable mathematics no longer involving Nonstandard Analysis. To establish the huge scope of |${\mathfrak{C}\mathfrak{I}}$| , we apply this template to representative theorems from the Big Five categories from Reverse Mathematics. The latter foundational program provides a classification of the majority of theorems from 'ordinary', i.e. non-set theoretical, mathematics into the aforementioned five categories. The Reverse Mathematics zoo gathers exceptions to this classification, and is studied in [ 74 , 77 ] using |${\mathfrak{C}\mathfrak{I}}$|. Hence, the template |${\mathfrak{C}\mathfrak{I}}$| is seen to apply to essentially all of ordinary mathematics , thanks to the Big Five classification (and associated zoo) from Reverse Mathematics. Finally, we establish that certain 'highly constructive' theorems, called Herbrandizations, also imply the original theorem of Nonstandard Analysis from which they were obtained via |${\mathfrak{C}\mathfrak{I}}$|.
- Subjects
NONSTANDARD mathematical analysis; REVERSE mathematics; MATHEMATICS theorems; DEFINITIONS
- Publication
Journal of Logic & Computation, 2020, Vol 30, Issue 1, p459
- ISSN
0955-792X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/logcom/exaa019