Universität Wien

250071 VO Nonstandard Analysis and Applications (2016S)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 25 - Mathematik
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Language: English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 02.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 09.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 16.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 06.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 13.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 20.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 27.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 04.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 11.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 18.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 25.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 01.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 08.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 15.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 22.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 29.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The aim of the course is to present many ideas and methods of Nonstandard Analysis (NSA), focusing more on applications than on foundational aspects. The course will be divided in three parts. In the first part (two to three lessons) we will present the concept of non-Archimedean extension of the reals (in particular of infinite and infinitesimal element), and we will show how this notion can be used to simplify the definitions of many basic concepts of real analysis and topology, as well as the proofs of many important basic results.

In the second part (two to three lessons) we will present several ways to formalize the construction of nonstandard extensions, and we will present the important concepts of transfer, saturation, internal and external objects. In the third part (all the remaining lessons) we will present several applications of NSA in different mathematical settings, e.g. to analysis,
topology, probability and combinatorial number theory. Many of these applications will be based on the notions of "hyperfinite extension" and Loeb measure.

Assessment and permitted materials

oral exam

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

reproducing the notions, results, and proofs presented at the blackboard during the lectures (at least in a mathematically equivalent way)

Examination topics

All the topics presented in the course.

Reading list

R.Goldblatt, Lectures on the Hyperreals (An Introduction to
Nonstandard Analysis), Springer, 1988.
S.Albeverio, J.E.Fenstad, R.Hoegh-Krohn, T.Lindstrom, Nonstandard Methods
in Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Physics, Dover Books on
Mathematics, 2009.
P.A.Loeb, M.P.H.Wold (eds.), Nonstandard Analysis for the Working
Mathematician, Springer, 2nd edition, 2015.

Association in the course directory

MANV

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