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A Constructive Analysis of the StoneWeierstrass Theorem Thierry Co quand Version at Septemb er Intro duction This note can b e seen as a constructive comment on an older note of MH Stone StI I We give a simple constructive lo calic pro of of the StoneWeierstrass theorem and a constructive treatment of Gelfand duality in the real case using only elementary algebraic arguments This gives also a particularly simple formal presentation of compact Hausdor spaces X and the asso ciated spaces of probability measures A prop ositional theory Let E b e a lattice ordered ab elian group or l group The elements of E are written a b c The op eration of E is written additively and the sup op eration is written a b The following assertions are standard and have elementary though not obvious pro ofs Birk Lux Prop osition For n we have n a b na nb and n a b na nb also na implies a This implies that E can b e emb edded as an lgroup in a divisible lattice ordered group where for each x and n there exists exactly one solution for ny x To simplify the presentation we will assume in the following that E is divisible it has then naturally the structure of a Riesz space over the set of rationals Q Lux We write as usual a + for a and a for a We can dene a b as a b a b We say that a is p ositive i a Let P b e the set of p ositive elements We write a b if a b P and a b We shall also use the following standard results Birk Prop osition We have a a + a and a + a Also for p ositive a b c if a b and a c then a b c If b P we write a b to mean that there exists n such that a nb If a b P we write a b i a b and b a The following remark will b e imp ortant and it has a direct pro of Prop osition For a b c P we have a b if a b Also