ABSTRACT
NSA has been in the public domain for over a quarter of a century — in effect since the appearance of Abraham Robinson’s seminal text in the 1960’s. Regrettably no mention of NSA appeared in the latter document and the overwhelming majority of the participants were almost wholly unaware of NSA and of its potential value in this context. The belief persists that NSA needs an explicit background of mathematical logic and model theory, which makes it difficult of access for all but those who are trained as mathematicians. The central theme was the increasingly difficult problem of teaching mathematics to an engineering audience, and the SEFI presented a possible “Core Curriculum in Mathematics for the European Engineer”. However the Schwartz theory was a fairly difficult subject for the non-mathematician when it first appeared and broadly speaking has remained so ever since, despite many attempts to make it more palatable to a wider audience.
