The ring of fermat reals

Advances in Mathematics

Volumn 225, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2050-2075

  Giordano, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Actual infinitesimals; Extension of the real field; Nilpotent infinitesimals; Smooth infinitesimal analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956172691     PISSN: 00018708     EISSN: 10902082     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2010.04.010     Document Type: Article

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