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Five Stages of Accepting Constructive Mathematics - Andrej Bauer

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

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.

“Here are two versions of the same well-done talk, from Andrej Bauer” (HN, 2018)

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@jimhefferon Nov 2018 Recommends
on HN thread 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.)
Andrej Bauer's well-done talk introducing constructive mathematics

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@no_identd Jan 2019 Cites it
on HN thread Unprovability comes to machine learning
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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
@leonidasrup Apr 2026 Cites it
on HN thread "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]
Andrej Bauer's IAS talk on constructive mathematics

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