Code
3E018510
Duration
01 October 2010 → 31 January 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Analysis
- History and foundations
Keywords
nonstandard analysis
foundations of mathematics
Reverse Mathematics
the infinite
Project description
Reverse Mathematics (RM) unveils the striking phenomenon that theorems of ordinary Mathematics fall in only five equivalence classes, although there are infinitely many nonequivalent classes in Logic. My project analyzes RM where equality = is replaced with $\approx$, equality up to infinitesimals from Nonstandard Analysis. There are applications in Physics and the Philosophy of Science.