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Five Stages of Accepting Constructive Mathematics - Andrej Bauer

Institute for Advanced Study1 HN recommender · recommended in 1 month, 2018-2026
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Andrej Bauer's IAS talk introduces constructive mathematics and what it feels like to do mathematics without excluded middle. It is framed as a tour for classical mathematicians.

Pointed to as a well-done introduction to constructive mathematics when it comes up in logic and proof assistant threads.

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@leonidasrup2026 · in “"Why not just use Lean?"”

Five stages of accepting constructive mathematics: Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance A talk about constructive mathematics by Andrej Bauer at the Institute for Advanced Study. ▶ this video link

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@no_identd2019 · in “Unprovability comes to machine learning”

That depends on what you mean by "Church-Turing thesis": * link The Interactive Nature of Computing: Refuting the Strong Church-Turing Thesis (Published version here: link ) * link See also a previous hacker news discussion of the Church-Turing thesis here: link albeit I take issue with the supposed "proof" by counter example via Compass & Straightedge construction given in the video there, due to results like these two: * link Kellison, Ariel; Bickword, Mark; Constable, Robert L. - Implementing Euclid’s straightedge and compass constructions in type theory [September 2018] (Code here: link ) * link (Numerous papers by Michael Beeson et al., just check the page, I won't link them all here) (Note that the authors of the two above works take very different yet similar approaches to the whole matter, it really pays off to compare both to each other.) However, there seem to exist at least two different spanners in the works: * link Makowsky, Johann A. - Can one design a geometry engine? On the (un)decidability of certain affine Euclidean geometries * link Makowsky, Johann A. - The Undecidability of Orthogonal and Origami Geometries (If the first of the two above papers makes you wonder "well who DIDN'T overlook Ziegler's theorem... Well... link ) Oh and in case anyone here still believes Hilbert's old wives tale about /his/ Axiom of Choice, there's plenty of AC to go around in constructive mathematics: link But if that doesn't convince you yet, you might go

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@jimhefferon2018 · in “The weird and wonderful world of constructive mathematics (2017) [pdf]”

There are a lot of folks here asking for a bit more. Here are two versions of the same well-done talk, from Andrej Bauer: a video ▶ this video , and a paper link (sorry, the paper link may not work for everyone, but the video contains basically the same content.)

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