Abraham Robinson was a Polish-born mathematician, born in Waldenburg, Germany (now Wałbrzych, Poland) on 6 October 1918 and dying in New Haven, Connecticut on 11 April 1974. He is best known for the development of non-standard analysis, which gave a rigorous logical footing to infinitesimal quantities that earlier centuries had used freely but could not justify. His family name was originally Robinsohn, and he used the shorter form after 1940. He is the originator of non-standard analysis and is linked to the long dispute over infinitely small numbers in the calculus.
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Abraham Robinson was a Polish-born mathematician best known for the development of non-standard analysis.
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Abraham Robinson was a Polish-born mathematician best known for the development of non-standard analysis.
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A mathematical implementation of both the law of continuity and infinitesimals was achieved by Abraham Robinson in 1961, who developed nonstandard analysis based on earlier work by Edwin Hewitt in 1948 and Jerzy Łoś in 1955.
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Nonstandard analysis originated in the early 1960s by the mathematician Abraham Robinson
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