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「Nonstandard analysis as a completion of standard 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

Many structures in mathematics are incomplete in one or more ways. For instance, the field of rationals or the reals are algebraically incomplete , because there are some non-trivial algebraic equations (such as in the case of the rationals, or in the case of the reals) which could potentially have solutions (because they do not imply a necessarily false statement, such as , just using the laws of algebra), but do not actually have solutions in the specified field.

Similarly, the rationals , when viewed now as a metric space rather than as a field, are also metrically incomplete , beause there exist sequences in the rationals (e.g. the decimal approximations of the irrational number ) which could potentially converge to a limit (because they form a Cauchy sequence ), but do not actually converge in the specified metric space.

已知结果和反例

A third type of incompleteness is that of logical incompleteness , which applies now to formal theories rather than to fields or metric spaces. For instance, Zermelo-Frankel-Choice (ZFC) set theory is logically incomplete, because there exist statements (such as the consistency of ZFC) which could potentially be provable by the theory (because it does not lead to a contradiction, or at least so we believe, just from the axioms and deductive rules of the theory), but is not ac

A fourth type of incompleteness, which is slightly less well known than the above three, is what I will call elementary incompleteness (and which model theorists call the failure of the countable saturation property ). It applies to any structure that is describable by a first-order language, such as a field, a metric space, or a universe of sets. For instance, in the language of ordered real fields, the real line is elementarily incomplete, because there exists a sequence of

证明或构造的主线

In each of these cases, though, it is possible to start with an incomplete structure and complete it to a much larger structure to eliminate the incompleteness. For instance, starting with an arbitrary field , one can take its algebraic completion (or algebraic closure ) ; for instance, can be viewed as the algebraic completion of . This field is usually significantly larger than the original field , but contains as a subfield, and every element of can be described as the sol

Similarly, starting with an arbitrary metric space , one can take its metric completion ; for instance, can be viewed as the metric completion of . Again, the completion is usually much larger than the original metric space , but contains as a subspace, and every element of can be described as the limit of some Cauchy sequence in . Furthermore, is now a complete metric space: every sequence in which is potentially convergent (in the sense of being a Cauchy sequence), is now a

阅读时建议盯住的点

In a similar vein, we have the Gödel completeness theorem , which implies (among other things) that for any consistent first-order theory for a first-order language , there exists at least one completion of that theory , which is a consistent theory in which every sentence in which is potentially true in (because it does not lead to a contradiction in ) is actually true in . Indeed, the completeness theorem provides at least one model (or structure ) of the consistent theory

Finally, if one starts with an arbitrary structure , one can form an elementary completion of it, which is a significantly larger structure which contains as a substructure, and such that every element of is an elementary limit of a sequence of elements in (I will define this term shortly). Furthermore, is elementarily complete; any sequence of statements that are potentially simultaneously satisfiable in (in the sense that any finite number of statements in this collection a

值得单独记下的条目

• could be the language of multiplicative groups, in which there is only one type of object (a group element), a constant symbol , a binary operation from pairs of group elements to group elements, and a unary operation from group elements to
• could be the language of real ordered fields, in which there is one type of object (a field element), constant symbols , binary operations , and unary operations (with the latter only being defined for non-zero elements), and the order rela
• could be the language of sets, in which there is one type of object (a set) and one relation .
• We say that the sequence is elementarily convergent to if we have for every predicate that takes one variable of the same type as the or as input.
• We say that the tuples are jointly elementarily Cauchy if, for every natural number , every predicate of variables in of the appropriate type, and every , the truth value of is eventually constant.
• We say that the tuples are jointly elementarily convergent to if, for every natural number , every predicate of variables in of the appropriate type, and every , the truth value of converges to the truth value of as .
• (Countable compactness) Every countable cover of by sets of the form for some predicate , has a finite subcover.
• (Elementary completeness) Every elementarily Cauchy sequence in has an elementarily convergent subsequence.

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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