A purely algebraic characterization of the hyperreal numbers

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 133, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2501-2505

  Benci, Vieri ^a   Di Nasso, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Algebraic properties of functions spaces; Nonstandard analysis; Rings of functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944500015     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-05-07429-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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