Differential Calculus and Nilpotent Real Numbers

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1943-5894|9|2|225-230

ISSN: 1079-8986

Source: Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, Vol.9, Iss.2, 2003-06, pp. : 225-230

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Abstract

Do there exist real numbers d with d 2 = 0 (besides d = 0, of course)? The question is formulated provocatively, to stress a formalist view about existence: existence is consistency, or better, coherence.