Abraham Robinson Quotes


I've made it a policy to move every five years, either physically or in my research.


Citations

Dauben, Joseph Warren. Abraham Robinson: The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis, A Personal and Mathematical Odyssey. Princeton University Press, 1995.

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Abraham Robinson
Abraham Robinson
  • Born: October 6, 1918
  • Died: April 11, 1974
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Mathematician

Abraham Robinson was a mathematician who is most widely known for development of non-standard analysis, a mathematically rigorous system whereby infinitesimal and infinite numbers were reincorporated into modern mathematics. Nearly half of Robinson's papers were in applied mathematics rather than in pure mathematics.