PRL Seminars

Important Episodes in the History of Constructive Mathematics--

including the frog and mouse wars


Robert Constable

March 1, 2004



Abstract

I will discuss the tension between L.E.J. Brouwer and David Hilbert in the early years of Intuitionism. I will also talk about the emergence of Bishops' program for constructive mathematics and the metaprinciple based on it.





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