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The Errett A. Bishop Memorial Scholarship and
Madge E. Lawhead Scholarship Winners for 2004-2005

Left to Right: Bruce Driver (Math Dept Chair), Thien Tung Nguyen (Bishop Scholarship recipient) Sam Buss, Bill Helton, Jane Bishop, Henry Shin (Bishop Scholarship recipient), Wee Teck Gan, Alan Anders (Lawhead Scholarship recipient), Mike Skirvin, Adrian Wadsworth.
The UCSD Mathematics Department is pleased to announce that Henry Kru Shin and Thien Tung Nguyen have been named as the 2004 - 2005 winners of the Errett Bishop Scholarship in Mathematics.

Alan Anders was awarded the Madge E. Lawhead Scholarship.

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.


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 ).