The UCSD Mathematics Department is pleased to announce that Binh Kim Dinh, John Timothy Kleint, George Ellazar Ruiz, and Jennifer Lynn Wang have been named as the 2000-2001 winners of the Errett Bishop Scholarship in Mathematics. These awards are given annually, through the Financial Aid Office, to undergraduate Mathematics majors in their senior year with an excellent academic record.

Helen Bishop, Errett Bishop's mother, established the scholarship to honor Professor Bishop's deep interest in undergraduate students and his support of those who wished to advance in their knowledge of Mathematics. Professor Bishop was an internationally renowned mathematician who was one of the founders of UCSD's mathematics program. Errett Bishop made significant advances in the area of mathematical analysis during the period 1954 to 1964.

The great depth of his discoveries and remarkable originality of his thought brought him recognition as one of the world's leaders in his area of mathematics. He later turned to the philosophical foundations of mathematics. He successfully developed a large area of mathematical analysis about which he published the book Foundations of Constructive Analysis (McGraw-Hill, 1967). The work set the stage for a revision of mathematical thinking. Errett Bishop was a Sloan Foundation Fellow, a member of the National Research Council, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

For information about applying for next year's Bishop Scholarship, check with the Math Advising Office (phone: 534-3590, e-mail: mathadvising@math.ucsd.edu ).