Jump to content

Non-standard model

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Michael Hardy (talk | contribs) at 18:34, 3 August 2006. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

In model theory, a nonstandard model is a model that has a different (larger) underlying set than the "standard" model. The sentences that were true in the standard model must be true in the nonstandard model (by the definition of its being a model), however, in the new model, new sentences will arise from the new elements in the larger underlying set. In model theoretic terms, a nonstandard model is an elementary extension of a standard model.

Examples of nonstandard models are those of analysis, and number theory.