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Douglas Bridges

Disciplines:
mathematics
constructive mathematics

Summary

New Zealand mathematician who has developed Bishop-style constructive mathematics — a rigorous constructive development of real analysis and functional analysis.

Core Contribution

Constructive Analysis (with Errett Bishop): a systematic constructive development of real analysis that is mathematically rigorous and practically applicable — every proof is a proof that a computation can be performed. Extended Bishop's programme to topology and algebra.

Notable Works & Achievements

Constructive Analysis

Techniques of Constructive Analysis

Historical Influences

Errett Bishop L.E.J. Brouwer

Intellectual Lineage

Constructive Mathematics

Contemporaries & Peers

Erik Palmgren Anne Troelstra

Minds Influenced

Constructive Mathematics Research

Intellectual Posterity

Constructive Analysis

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