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Andrej Bauer

Mathematician

Apr 8, 2026

2:55
What are a few of these things people misinterpret? Or maybe even a step back, what's the difference between classical and constructive math?
3:05
Well, okay, so the first one is what is constructive mathematics? And people say, well, constructive mathematics is mathematics without excluded middle.
3:14
And then this is the first division point where you say, okay, so you mean denial of excluded middle.
3:22
And that's most definitely not what I mean.
3:25
A lot of what is going on can be compared to a similar situation, say in algebra, where you generalize the structure.
3:33
So imagine you have something like, suppose you study commutative groups.
3:40
So groups with one operation, an inverse, and the operation is commutative.

9 MINS LATER

12:30
Can we maybe step a bit back and make sure that everybody knows what Axiom of Choice is? I think that's the usual story, right? If you have infinitely many drawers and each of them contains a pair of socks, can you select a sock from every drawer?

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