Abraham Robinson Quotes

Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc…
ABRAHAM ROBINSON

Arithmetic Discovery Enlarging Integer Number Proceed Successively System Thinking
As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
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Accept Ideas Mathematician Minority Platonist View
A campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.
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Campus College Education Emphasis Framework Particular Put System Undergraduate
The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California
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Campus College Committee Country Idea Support University
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.
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Centuries Coming Considered History Mathematics
But the next quite logical step after the reals, namely the introduction of infinitesimals, has simply been omitted.
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Infinitesimal Introduction Logical Quite Real Simply Step
I’ve made it a policy to move every five years, either physically or in my research.
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Moving Physically Policy Research Year