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Wilhelmus Luxemburg

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Wilhelmus Anthonius Josephus Luxemburg (born 11 April 1929, in Delft, Netherlands) is Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology. [1]

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Abraham Robinson

Abraham Robinson (born Robinsohn; October 6, 1918 – April 11, 1974) was a mathematician who is most widely known for development of non-standard analysis, a mathematically rigorous system whereby infinitesimal and infinite numbers were reincorporated into modern mathematics.

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Adriaan Cornelis Zaanen

Adriaan Cornelis "Aad" Zaanen (14 June 1913 in Rotterdam – 1 April 2003 in Wassenaar) was a Dutch mathematician working in analysis.

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American Mathematical Society

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, advocacy and other programs.

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American Men and Women of Science

American Men and Women of Science (33rd edition, published 2015) is a biographical reference work on leading scientists in the United States and Canada, published as a series of books and online by Gale.

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Delft

Delft is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands.

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Delft University of Technology

Delft University of Technology (Technische Universiteit Delft) also known as TU Delft, is the largest and oldest Dutch public technological university, located in Delft, Netherlands.

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Edwin Hewitt

Edwin Hewitt (January 20, 1920, Everett, Washington – June 21, 1999) was an American mathematician known for his work in abstract harmonic analysis and for his discovery, in collaboration with Leonard Jimmie Savage, of the Hewitt–Savage zero–one law.

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Hyperreal number

The system of hyperreal numbers is a way of treating infinite and infinitesimal quantities.

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Influence of non-standard analysis

The influence of Abraham Robinson's theory of non-standard analysis has been felt in a number of fields.

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Joseph Dauben

Joseph Warren Dauben (born 29 December 1944, Santa Monica) is a Herbert H. Lehman Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

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Keith Stroyan

Keith D. Stroyan is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Iowa.

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Leiden University

Leiden University (abbreviated as LEI; Universiteit Leiden), founded in the city of Leiden, is the oldest university in the Netherlands.

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Mathematics

Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, "knowledge, study, learning") is the study of such topics as quantity, structure, space, and change.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, abbreviated: KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands.

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Ultraproduct

The ultraproduct is a mathematical construction that appears mainly in abstract algebra and in model theory, a branch of mathematical logic.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelmus_Luxemburg

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