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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1567016
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Book Information:

Author: Martin Davis
Title: Applied nonstandard analysis
Additional book information: Wiley, New York, London, Sydney, Toronto, 1977, xii + 181 pp., $16.95.

Authors: K. D. Stroyan and W. A. J. Luxemburg
Title: Introduction to the theory of infinitesimals
Additional book information: Academic Press, New York, San Francisco, London, 1976, xiii + 326 pp., $24.50.

Author: H. Jerome Keisler
Title: Foundations of infinitesimal calculus
Additional book information: Prindle, Weber & Schmidt, Boston, 1976, ix + 214 pp.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Andreas Blass
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (1978), 34-41
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1978-14401-2