Constructive Analysis

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This work grew out of Errett Bishop’s fundamental treatise ‘Founda- tions of Constructive Analysis’ (FCA), which appeared in 1967 and which contained the bountiful harvest of a remarkably short period of research by its author. Truly, FCA was an exceptional book, not only because of the quantity of original material it contained, but also as a demonstration of the practicability of a program which most ma- thematicians believed impossible to carry out. Errett’s book went out of print shortly after its publication, and no second edition was produced by its publishers. Some years later, ‘by a set of curious chances’, it was agreed that a new edition of FCA would be published by Springer Verlag, the revision being carried out by me under Errett’s supervision; at the same time, Errett gener- ously insisted that I become a joint author. The revision turned out to be much more substantial than we had anticipated, and took longer than we would have wished. Indeed, tragically, Errett died before the work was complete