27 Feb
2013
27 Feb
'13
7:16 a.m.
On 2/26/13, W. Edwin Clark <wclark@mail.usf.edu> wrote:
Errett Bishop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errett_Bishop) was one pure mathematican who wouldn't have put up with "Ah, a solution exists".
What was meant by "schizophrenia" in this biog --- maybe the dichotomy between constructive and "ideal" (non-constructive, presumably) methods? And what is (are?) "classical" mathematics in this context --- Bourbaki? WFL