陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「A cheap version of nonstandard analysis」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

Nonstandard analysis is a mathematical framework in which one extends the standard mathematical universe of standard numbers, standard sets, standard functions, etc. into a larger nonstandard universe of nonstandard numbers, nonstandard sets, nonstandard functions, etc., somewhat analogously to how one places the real numbers inside the complex numbers, or the rationals inside the reals. This nonstandard universe enjoys many of the same properties as the standard one; in part

To build a nonstandard universe from a standard one , the most common approach is to take an ultrapower of with respect to some non-principal ultrafilter over the natural numbers; see e.g. this blog post for details. Once one is comfortable with ultrafilters and ultrapowers, this becomes quite a simple and elegant construction, and greatly demystifies the nature of nonstandard analysis.

已知结果和反例

On the other hand, nonprincipal ultrafilters do have some unappealing features. The most notable one is that their very existence requires the axiom of choice (or more precisely, a weaker form of this axiom known as the boolean prime ideal theorem ). Closely related to this is the fact that one cannot actually write down any explicit example of a nonprincipal ultrafilter, but must instead rely on nonconstructive tools such as Zorn’s lemma, the Hahn-Banach theorem, Tychonoff’s

There is however a “cheap” version of nonstandard analysis which is less powerful than the full version, but is not as infinitary in that it is constructive (in the sense of not requiring any sort of choice-type axiom), and which can be translated into standard analysis somewhat more easily than a fully nonstandard argument; indeed, a cheap nonstandard argument can often be presented (by judicious use of asymptotic notation) in a way which is nearly indistinguishable from a s

证明或构造的主线

Below the fold, I would like to describe this cheap version of nonstandard analysis, which I think can serve as a pedagogical stepping stone towards fully nonstandard analysis, as it is formally similar to (though weaker than) fully nonstandard analysis, but on the other hand is closer in practice to standard analysis. As we shall see below, the relation between cheap nonstandard analysis and standard analysis is analogous in many ways to the relation between probabilistic re

To set up cheap nonstandard analysis, 下面会 need an asymptotic parameter , which 下面会 take to initially lie in the natural numbers (though it is certainly possible to set up cheap nonstandard analysis on other non-compact spaces than if one wishes). However, we reserve the right in the future to restrict the parameter space from to a smaller infinite subset (which corresponds to the familiar operation of passing from a sequence to a subsequence, except that we do not bother to r

阅读时建议盯住的点

We then distinguish two types of mathematical objects:

Similarly with “object” replaced by other mathematical concepts such as “number”, “point”, “set”, “function”, etc. Thus, for instance, a nonstandard real is a real number that depends on the asymptotic parameter ; a nonstandard function is a function from a domain to a range , which are all allowed to depend on the asymptotic parameter ; and so forth.

值得单独记下的条目

• Standard objects , which do not depend on the asymptotic parameter ; and
• Nonstandard objects , which are allowed to depend on the asymptotic parameter .
• (Quantitative standard version) There exists a standard such that for all standard .
• (Quantitative nonstandard version) There exists a standard such that for all nonstandard elements of .
• (Qualitative nonstandard version) is bounded for each nonstandard element of .
• (Qualitative subsequential nonstandard version) For each nonstandard element of , is bounded after passing to a subsequence.
• (Standard version) is continuous.
• (Nonstandard version) If is a standard element of and is a cheap nonstandard element that is infinitesimally close to , then is infinitesimally close to .

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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