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Peter Schuster

University of Leeds
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  • University of Leeds
    Regular Faculty
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Interest
Logic and Philosophy of Logic
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
  • All publications (68)
  • From Sets and Types to Topology and Analysis: Towards Practicable Foundations for Constructive Mathematics
    Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 12 (4): 611-612. 2006.
    Intuitionism and Constructivism
  •  30
    How complexity originates: Examples from history reveal additional roots to complexity
    Complexity 21 (S2): 7-12. 2016.
    Complexity
  •  44
    Complexity has come of age
    with Alfred Hübler
    Complexity 21 (S2): 6-6. 2016.
    Complexity
  •  29
    Preface
    with Dieter Probst
    In Dieter Probst & Peter Schuster (eds.), Concepts of Proof in Mathematics, Philosophy, and Computer Science, De Gruyter. 2016.
    British Philosophy
  •  35
    Contents
    with Dieter Probst
    In Dieter Probst & Peter Schuster (eds.), Concepts of Proof in Mathematics, Philosophy, and Computer Science, De Gruyter. 2016.
    The Contents of Perception
  •  50
    Ebola-challenge and revival of theoretical epidemiology: Why Extrapolations from early phases of epidemics are problematic
    Complexity 20 (5): 7-12. 2015.
    Ebola
  •  42
    Models: From exploration to prediction: Bad reputation of modeling in some disciplines results from nebulous goals
    Complexity 21 (1): 6-9. 2016.
    The Nature of Models
  •  7
    Are there noticeable relativistic effects on terrestrial evolution?
    Complexity 5 (3): 20. 2000.
    Quantum Mechanics
  • Über das Kripke-Schema und abzählbare Teilmengen
    with JÚlia Zappe
    Logique Et Analyse 51. 2008.
    Metaphysics and EpistemologyKripkenstein on Meaning
  •  54
    Are computer scientists the sutlers of modern biology?: Bioinformatics is indispensible for progress in molecular life sciences but does not get credit for its contributions
    Complexity 19 (4): 10-14. 2014.
    Philosophy of Biology, MiscellaneousBiological SciencesInformation Science
  •  59
    Networks in biology: Handling biological complexity requires novel inputs into network theory
    Complexity 16 (4): 6-9. 2011.
    Philosophy of Biology, MiscellaneousComplexity in Biology
  •  61
    Optimization of multiple criteria: Pareto efficiency and fast heuristics should be more popular than they are
    Complexity 18 (2): 5-7. 2013.
    Theory in Economics
  •  91
    Designing living matter. Can we do better than evolution?
    Complexity 18 (6): 21-33. 2013.
    Evolutionary Biology
  •  116
    A beginning of the end of the holism versus reductionism debate?: Molecular biology goes cellular and organismic
    Complexity 13 (1): 10-13. 2007.
    Reduction
  •  86
    Nonlinear dynamics from physics to biology
    Complexity 12 (4): 9-11. 2007.
    Nonlinear Dynamics
  •  42
    The disaster of central control
    Complexity 9 (4): 13-14. 2004.
    Motivation and Will
  •  50
    Boltzmann, atomism, evolution, and statistics: Continuity versus discreteness in biology
    Complexity 11 (6): 9-11. 2006.
    Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
  •  118
    Origins of life: Concepts, data, and debates
    Complexity 15 (3): 7-10. 2010.
    Philosophy of Psychology
  •  101
    Free will, information, quantum mechanics, and biology
    Complexity 15 (1): 8-10. 2009.
    Quantum Information
  •  114
    A revival of the landscape paradigm: Large scale data harvesting provides access to fitness landscapes
    Complexity 17 (5): 6-10. 2012.
    Evolutionary Biology
  •  74
    Are there recipes for how to handle complexity?
    Complexity 14 (1): 8-12. 2008.
    Complexity
  •  40
    Contingeny and memory in evolution
    Complexity 15 (6): 7-10. 2010.
    Memory
  •  94
    Compactness under constructive scrutiny
    with Hajime Ishihara
    Mathematical Logic Quarterly 50 (6): 540-550. 2004.
    How are the various classically equivalent definitions of compactness for metric spaces constructively interrelated? This question is addressed with Bishop-style constructive mathematics as the basic system – that is, the underlying logic is the intuitionistic one enriched with the principle of dependent choices. Besides surveying today's knowledge, the consequences and equivalents of several sequential notions of compactness are investigated. For instance, we establish the perhaps unexpected co…Read more
    How are the various classically equivalent definitions of compactness for metric spaces constructively interrelated? This question is addressed with Bishop-style constructive mathematics as the basic system – that is, the underlying logic is the intuitionistic one enriched with the principle of dependent choices. Besides surveying today's knowledge, the consequences and equivalents of several sequential notions of compactness are investigated. For instance, we establish the perhaps unexpected constructive implication that every sequentially compact separable metric space is totally bounded. As a by-product, the fan theorem for detachable bars of the complete binary fan proves to be necessary for the unit interval possessing the Heine-Borel property for coverings by countably many possibly empty open balls
    Intuitionism and Constructivism
  •  144
    The Fan Theorem and Unique Existence of Maxima
    with Josef Berger and Douglas Bridges
    Journal of Symbolic Logic 71 (2). 2006.
    The existence and uniqueness of a maximum point for a continuous real—valued function on a metric space are investigated constructively. In particular, it is shown, in the spirit of reverse mathematics, that a natural unique existence theorem is equivalent to the fan theorem
    Model TheoryIntuitionism and Constructivism
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    Strong continuity implies uniform sequential continuity
    with Douglas Bridges, Hajime Ishihara, and Luminiţa Vîţa
    Archive for Mathematical Logic 44 (7): 887-895. 2005.
    Uniform sequential continuity, a property classically equivalent to sequential continuity on compact sets, is shown, constructively, to be a consequence of strong continuity on a metric space. It is then shown that in the case of a separable metric space, uniform sequential continuity implies strong continuity if and only if one adopts a certain boundedness principle that, although valid in the classical, recursive and intuitionistic setting, is independent of Heyting arithmetic.
    Philosophy of Mathematics, General WorksAnalysisIntuitionism and Constructivism
  •  76
    Corrigendum to “Unique solutions”
    Mathematical Logic Quarterly 53 (2): 214-214. 2007.
    Model Theory
  •  80
    On the contrapositive of countable choice
    with Hajime Ishihara
    Archive for Mathematical Logic 50 (1-2): 137-143. 2011.
    We show that in elementary analysis (EL) the contrapositive of countable choice is equivalent to double negation elimination for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$${\Sigma_{2}^{0}}$$\end{document}-formulas. By also proving a recursive adaptation of this equivalence in Heyting arithmetic (HA), we give an …Read more
    We show that in elementary analysis (EL) the contrapositive of countable choice is equivalent to double negation elimination for \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$${\Sigma_{2}^{0}}$$\end{document}-formulas. By also proving a recursive adaptation of this equivalence in Heyting arithmetic (HA), we give an instance of the conservativity of EL over HA with respect to recursive functions and predicates. As a complement, we prove in HA enriched with the (extended) Church thesis that every decidable predicate is recursive.
    Areas of Mathematics
  •  53
    The Kripke schema in metric topology
    with Robert Lubarsky and Fred Richman
    Mathematical Logic Quarterly 58 (6): 498-501. 2012.
    A form of Kripke's schema turns out to be equivalent to each of the following two statements from metric topology: every open subspace of a separable metric space is separable; every open subset of a separable metric space is a countable union of open balls. Thus Kripke's schema serves as a point of reference for classifying theorems of classical mathematics within Bishop-style constructive reverse mathematics
    Areas of MathematicsIntuitionism and Constructivism
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    A direct proof of Wiener's theorem
    with Matthew Hendtlass
    In S. Barry Cooper (ed.), How the World Computes, . pp. 293--302. 2012.
    Areas of Mathematics
  •  77
    Formal Zariski topology: positivity and points
    Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 137 (1-3): 317-359. 2006.
    The topic of this article is the formal topology abstracted from the Zariski spectrum of a commutative ring. After recollecting the fundamental concepts of a basic open and a covering relation, we study some candidates for positivity. In particular, we present a coinductively generated positivity relation. We further show that, constructively, the formal Zariski topology cannot have enough points
    Science, Logic, and MathematicsAreas of Mathematics
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