“On the plausibility of nonstandard proofs in analysis”

Dialectica 38 (4):297-310 (1984)
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SummaryWe present a systematic discussion of the structural and conceptual simplifications of proofs of standard theorems afforded by nonstandard methods and examine to what extent the resulting nonstandard proofs satisfy the informal criterion of “plausibility”. We introduce the concept of a “standard detour” and show that all nonstandard proofs considered avoid such detours. Among the proofs examined are proofs of the Intermediate Value Theorem, the Riemann Integration Theorem, the Spectral Theorem for compact Hermitian operators, and the Arzela‐Ascoli Theorem.RésuméNous discutons systématiquement les simplifications structurelles et conceptuelles apportées par des méthodes non standard aux démonstrations de théorèmes standard et examinons jusQuà quel point de telles démonstrations non standard satisfont à un critère informel de plausibilityé. Nous introduisons la notion de détour standard et montrons que toutes les démonstrations non standard considérées évitent de tels détours. Parmi les démonstrations examinées: celles du théoréme de la valeur intermédiate, du théorème ?on;intégration de Riemann, du théorème spectral pour les opérateurs hermitiques compacts et du théorème ?on;Arzelà‐Arcoli.ZusammenfassungWir stellen eine systematische Betrachtung der durch die Nichtstandard‐Methoden gegebe‐nen strukturellen und begrifflichen Vereinfachungen von Beweisen von Standardsätzen an, und untersuchen, wie weit die entstandenen Nichtstandard‐Beweise das informelle Kriterium der Plausibilität erfüllen. Wir führen den Begriff eines Standard‐Umweges ein, und zeigen, dass alle betrachteten Nichtstandard‐Beweise solche Umwege vermeiden. Unter den betrachteten Beweisen befinden sich Beweise des Zwischenwertsatzes, des Riemannschen lntegralsatzes, des Spektralsatzes für kompakte, hermitische Operatoren, und des Theorems von Arzelà‐Ascoli

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