Abraham Robinson
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Abraham Robinson was a mathematician who is most widely known for development of nonstandard analysis, a mathematically rigorous system whereby infinitesimal and infinite numbers were reincorporated i
Robinson in 1970
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist, and diplomat who is credited, alongside Isaac Newton, with the creation of calculus in addition to ma
Abraham Robinson
…in 1966. Robinson was strongly interested in the history and philosophy of mathematics, and often remarked that he wanted to get inside the head of Leibniz, the first mathematician to attempt to articulate clearly the concept of infinitesimal numbers. While at UCLA his colleagues remember him as working…
Leibniz c. 1695
Leibniz monument at Leipzig University
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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