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I think, in coming centuries it will be considered a great oddity in the history of mathematics that the first exact theory of infinitesimals was developed 300 years after the invention of the differential calculus.

Abraham Robinson

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But the next quite logical step after the reals, namely the introduction of infinitesimals, has simply been omitted.
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