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网页An infinitesimal is either a positive infinitesimal, a negative infinitesimal, or zero. In R R there is only one infinitesimal, zero - this is precisely the Archimedean property of R R. So while people use the word infinitesimal to convey intuition, the real numbers don't have any non-zero infinitesimals, so their explanation is flawed.
calculus - What's an example of an infinitesimal? - Mathematics …
网页2016年1月7日 · A nice feature of these numbers is that, for any polynomial p, we have p(x + ε) = p(x) + p (x)ε. – Akiva Weinberger. Jan 7, 2016 at 16:30. 2. An example of an infinitesimal quantity, may be given as the ratio of the weight of an ant divided by the weight of the planet earth. For educational purposes, ratios of known things bring in implicit ...
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网页Besides, indeed infinitesimal calculus was proved in non-standard analysis, but it was invented until 1960s I think. And I don't know if it can replace all arguments in the theories developed after $\varepsilon-\delta$-definition and before the invention of …
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网页12. As far as teaching the calculus is concerned, infinitesimals are useful in explaining concepts such as derivative, integral, and even limit. That's why Kathleen Sullivan's controlled study of infinitesimal and epsilontic methodologies in the 1970s revealed that students taught using infinitesimals possess better conceptual understanding of ...
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网页2015年5月31日 · The approach with infinitesimals is equivalent to the one without infinitesimals. Anything you can prove using one formalism, you can prove in the other formalism. The difference is thus cosmetic, and a matter of taste and preference. That is largely influenced by what is historically more common-place, which of course is the infinitesimal-free ...
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网页In a calculus textbook I have (Calculus, Stewart), it states that for a differentiable function y = f(x) y = f (x), the differential of the function is defined as. dy =f′(x)dx. d y = f ′ (x) d x. It states that Δx ≈ dx Δ x ≈ d x since Δx Δ x is small. What I fail to understand is that why dx d x is classified as a differential, and ...
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网页2020年10月10日 · Infinitesimal calculus is really how it was thought of when it was first created. We know the area under a curve because we just add up all of these infinitesimally small slices. However, and really think about this, how small is an infinitesimal? This is why I said that this is how calculus was thought of when it was first created. We don't ...
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网页2016年6月23日 · In the B-track, limit is defined in a more straightforward way using infinitesimals. For example, limx→0 f(x) lim x → 0 f (x) can be defined simply as the standard part of f(α) f (α) where α ≠ 0 α ≠ 0 is infinitesimal. Both epsilon-delta techniques and infinitesimals provide rigorous ways of handling the calculus.
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网页Infinitesimals (and especially infinitesimal partitions) are ordinarily used in defining definite integrals in a fashion that is intuitively appealing and is closer procedurally to what the inventors of the calculus (like Leibniz and Euler) were doing, but they are usually only an intermediate step, and tend to disappear when the final answer ...
calculus - Book recommendation on infinitesimals - Mathematics …
网页2015年5月13日 · For example there's the book A Primer of Infinitesimal Analysis by John Bell. It gives a rigorous theory that allows you to use infinitesimals a lot like ordinary numbers. But this approach is called non-standard for a reason. It might not be what you really want and there's some heavy duty mathematics in the background.