Professor Douglas S. BridgesProfessor Douglas S. Bridges

Professor of Pure Mathematics (1999-)
B.Sc. (Hons), Edinburgh; M.Sc. Newcastle; Dip. Ed. Edinburgh;
D.Phil. Oxford; D.Sc. Oxford, FRSNZ, CorrFRSE


Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND

Room 704, Erskine Building
Telephone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7427
Fax: +64 3 364 2587
Email: d.bridges@math.canterbury.ac.nz

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

  • Constructive foundations of:
    • analysis: in particular, functional analysis (including Banach algebras and operator algebras), measure theory, operator theory,approximation theory, real and complex analysis;
    • topology: the axiomatic theory of apartness between sets.
  • Mathematical economics: the numerical representation of preference relations; demand functions; equilibrium theory; constructive methods.
  • Computability and abstract complexity theory.
  • Quantum logic and operator-theoretic foundations of physics.

See Constructive Mathematics.

Constructive Mathematics: Proof and Computation
Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
European Commission Seventh Framework Programmme

Symposium on Topology and Analysis: Proof and Computation, Nov 29 – Dec 3

Recent Talks

New Book

Apartness and Uniformity: A Constructive Development ”, Douglas Bridges and L.S. Vîţă

Lecture Notes

Lebesgue Integral

PhD theses supervised

Michael (Yunchuan) Wang: Constructive Analysis of Partial Differential Equations