Photo: Jonathan Kommemi, Luis Guerrero, Jane Bishop, John Quinn and Jenny Chu. Frank Lam and Darwin Yee were unable to attend the lunch.

Jenny Chu, Luis Guerrero, Jonathan Kommemi, Frank Lam and Darwin Yee were named the 2005 - 2006 recipients of the Errett Bishop Scholarship in Mathematics.

A lunch was held on October 29 to honor the scholarship recipients and the Bishop Family represented by Jane Bishop, Errett Bishop's widow.

These awards are given annually, through the Financial Aid Office, to undergraduate Mathematics majors who have an excellent academic record and are in their senior year.

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.

Photo: Prof Sam Buss, Math Dept Chair with Jane Bishop, faculty, award recipients and their guests.

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 ).