Abraham Robinson – The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis – Dauben, Princeton U Pr

[A] well-written and most carefully researched text [that is] enlightening and delightful to read. Dauben’s account of it is engrossingly intimate.”. by Joseph Warren Dauben. One of the most prominent mathematicians of the twentieth century, Abraham Robinson discovered and developed nonstandard analysis, a rigorous theory of infinitesimals that he used to unite mathematical logic with the larger body of historic and modern mathematics.