What is the relation of infimalistic math to calculus?

[transgalactic]

in my previous course i solved(with your help) every type of calculus question
without hearing or reading on infimalistic math.

now i am doing this course
and i talked to the lecturer and he told me that
in this course i have the normal questions and proofs
but each proof question comes from each type of question that i already know.

so why do i need infimalistic math?

 

[Pere Callahan]

What is "infimalistic math"??

 

[HallsofIvy]

"Infimalistic"? Do you mean "infinitesmal"? You may be referring to "non-standard" analysis which begins by extending the real number system to include both "infinite numbers" and "infinitesmal numbers". That allows one to say, for example, that if y= x², then y+ dy= (x+ dx)²= x²+ 2xdx+ (dx)² so dy= 2xdx+ dx² and dy/dx= 2x+ dx. By the laws of arithmetic that have to be introduced to deal with "infinitesmal" and "infinite" numbers, dy/dx, the ratio of two "infinitesmal" numbers is a "regular" number while on the right, the sum 2x+ dx, of a "regular" number and a while dx is "infinitesmal" so their sum is just 2x: dy/dx= 2x.

There are no results in "non-standard" analysis that are not true in "standard" analysis so you don't need to know "non-standard" analysis for applications.

 

[transgalactic]

the are therms like SUP and INF which i am required to know in this course
is that part of "non-standard" analysis("infinitesmal math")?