Book Review: Infinitesimal Calculus

Lecture 19: Constructive Reals and Infinitesimal Calculus

We will present a very interesting theorem from Bishop and Bridges, and then we will briefly consider the nature of nonstandard models of the classical reals as presented in H.J. Keisler’s book, Elementary Calculus and his free 203 page instructor’s book entitled Foundations of the Infinitesimal Calculus [8] which is provided as a course resource with this lecture. We have not covered the basic...

Book review: The Calculus of Selfishness, by Karl Sigmund

Leading game theorist Karl Sigmund calls his latest book The Calculus of Selfishness, although arguably The Calculus of Cooperation would have been an equally suitable title. The central problem is this: How can cooperation, or even altruism, come about in a population of selfish individuals? We see plenty of cooperation around us, most prominently in human societies but also within other speci...

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