Monad (non-standard analysis)
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In non-standard analysis, a monad (also called halo[1]) is the set of points infinitely close to a given point.
Given a hyperreal number x in R*, the monad of x is the set
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Notes
- ^ Goldblatt, Robert (1998). Lectures on the Hyperreals. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 038798464X.
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