UC Research Profile - University of Canterbury

Professor Douglas Sutherland Bridges

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Department: Mathematics and Statistics

Email: douglas.bridges@canterbury.ac.nz

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Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

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Fields of Research

Constructive reverse mathematics
Computability and complexity
Constructive analysis
Mathematical economics
Mathematical foundations of computer science
Mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics
Topology

Researcher Summary

Research interests include: constructive foundations of mathematics: in particular, constructive foundations of analysis (real and functional) and topology (the axiomatic theory of apartness), and ring theory; constructive reverse mathematics: classifying constructive proofs by the principles they require, and nonconstructive proofs by the nonconstructive principles they depend on; computability and abstract complexity theory; mathematical economics: the numerical representation of preference relations; demand functions; equilibrium theory; and quantum logic and operator-theoretic foundations of physics.

Subject Area: Disciplines

Mathematics: Pure Mathematics

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Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

(Displaying research/scholarly/creative work for 1998 - 2008)

Journal Articles

Baroni MA. and Bridges DS. (2008) Continuity Properties of Preference Relations. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science 202: 19-25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.entcs.2008.03.004.

Baroni MA. and Bridges DS. (2008) Continuity properties of preference relations. Mathematical Logic Quarterly 54(5): 454-459. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/malq.200710059.

Berger J. and Bridges D. (2008) The anti-Specker property, a Heine-Borel property, and uniform continuity. Archive for Mathematical Logic 46(7-8): 583-592. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00153-007-0063-1.

Berger J. and Bridges D. (2008) The Fan Theorem and Positive-Valued Uniformly Continuous Functions on Compact Intervals. New Zealand Journal of Mathematics 38: 129-135.

Bridges D., Ishihara H., Schuster PM. and Vita L. (2008) Apartness, compactness and nearness. Theoretical Computer Science 405(1-2): 3-10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2008.06.019.

Bridges DS. (2008) Product a-frames and proximity. Mathematical Logic Quarterly 54(1): 12-25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/malq.200710033.

Bridges DS. (2008) Uniform Continuity Properties of Preference Relations. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 49(1): 97-106.

Bridges DS. and Diener H. (2008) The pseudocompactness of [0,1] is equivalent to the uniform continuity theorem. Journal of Symbolic Logic 72(4): 1379-1384. http://dx.doi.org/10.2178/jsl/1203350793.

Bridges DS. and Vîta LS. (2008) Proximal connectedness. Fundamenta Informaticae 83(1-2): 25-34.

Berger J. and Bridges D. (2007) A fan-theoretic equivalent of the antithesis of Specker's theorem. Indagationes Mathematicae 18(2): 195-202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0019-3577(07)00012-2.

Bridges D. and Havea R. (2007) Powers of a Hermitian Element in a Banach Algebra. New Zealand Journal of Mathematics 36: 1-10.

Bridges D., Ishihara H., Mines R., Richman F., Schuster P. and Vita L. (2007) Almost locatedness in uniform spaces. Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal 57(1): 1-12.

Bridges DS. (2007) Constructing local optima on a compact interval. Archive for Mathematical Logic 46(2): 149-154. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00153-006-0032-0.

Berger J. and Bridges DS. (2006) A bizarre property equivalent to the П01-fan theorem. Logic Journal of IGPL 14(6): 867-871. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jigpal/jzl026.

Bridges D. and Diener H. (2006) A constructive treatment of Urysohn's lemma in an apartness space. Mathematical Logic Quarterly 52(5): 464-469. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/malq.200610006.

Bridges D. and Schuster P. (2006) A simple constructive proof of Kronecker's density theorem. Elemente der Mathematik 61(4): 152-154.

Bridges D. and Vita LS. (2006) Pre-apartness structures on spaces of functions. Journal of Complexity 22(6): 881-893. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jco.2006.04.008.

Authored Books

Bridges DS. and Vîta LS. (2006) Techniques of Constructive Analysis. New York: Springer. 216pp.

Journal Articles

Bridges DS., Berger J. and Schuster P. (2006) The fan theorem and unique existence of maxima. Journal of Symbolic Logic 71(2): 713-720. http://dx.doi.org/10.2178/jsl/1146620167.

Bridges DS., Havea R. and Schuster P. (2006) Finitely generated Banach algebras and local Nullstellensatze. Publicationes Mathematicae Debrecen 69(1-2): 10pp.

Bridges DS., Havea R. and Schuster P. (2006) Ideals in constructive Banach algebra theory. Journal of Complexity 22(6): 729-737. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jco.2006.03.004.

Bridges DS., Ishihara H. and Vita L. (2006) A new constructive version of Baire's Theorem. Hokkaido Mathematics Journal 35(1): 107-118.

Bridges DS. (2005) A weak constructive sequential compactness property and the fan theorem. Logic Journal of the IGPL 13(2): 151-158. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jigpal/jzi011.

Bridges DS. and Havea R. (2005) Approximating the numerical range in a Banach algebra. Oxford Logic Guides 48(From Sets and Types to Topology and Analysis): 293-303.

Bridges DS. and Vita L. (2005) The constructive uniqueness of the locally convex topology on Rn. Oxford Logic Guides 48(From Sets and Types to Topology and Analysis): 304-315.

Bridges DS. and Vita LS. (2005) A general constructive proof technique. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science 120: 31-43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.entcs.2004.06.032.

Bridges DS., Ishihara H., Schuster P. and Vita L. (2005) Strong continuity implies uniform sequential continuity. Archive for Mathematical Logic 44(7): 887-895. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00153-005-0291-1.

Bridges DS., Ishihara H., Schuster P. and Vita LS. (2005) Products in the category of apartness spaces. Cahiers de Topologie et Géometrie Différentielle 46: 139-153.

Bridges D., Ishihara H. and Vita L. (2004) Computing infima on convex sets, with applications in Hilbert spaces. Proceedings of the American Mathematics Society 132: 2723-2732.

Bridges DS. (2004) Constructive complements of unions of two closed sets. Mathematical Logic Quarterly 50(3): 293-294.

Bridges DS. (2004) Constructivity in mathematics. Cubo 6(1): 209-258.

Bridges DS. (2004) First steps in constructive game theory. Mathematical Logic Quarterly 50(4/5): 501-506.

Bridges DS. and Vita LS. (2004) More on Cauchy nets in apartness spaces. Scientiae Mathematicae Japonicae 9: 375-380.

Bridges DS., Mines R., Richman F. and Schuster PM. (2004) The polydisk Nullstellensatz. Proceedings of the American Mathematics Society 132(7): 2133-2140.

Bridges D. and Vita LS. (2003) Separatedness in constructive topology. Documenta Mathematica 8: 567-576.

Bridges D. and Vita LS. (2003) Strong and uniform continuity - the uniform space case. London Mathematical Society Journal of Computing and Mathematics 6: 326-334.

Bridges DS. (2003) Apartness spaces - a progress report. Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science 81.

Bridges DS. and Popa G. (2003) Exact, Continuous Boundary Crossings Out of Convex Sets in R^N. Quarterly Journal of Mathematics 54(4): 391-398.

Bridges DS. and Vita LS. (2003) A constructive theory of point-set nearness. Theoretical Computer Science 305(1-3): 473-489.

Bridges DS. and Vita LS. (2003) A proof-technique in uniform space theory. Journal of Symbolic Logic 68(3): 795-802.

Bridges DS. and Vita LS. (2003) Apartness spaces as a framework for constructive topology. Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 119(1-3): 61-83.

Bridges DS. and Vita LS. (2003) Cauchy nets in uniform apartness spaces. Revue Roumaine des Math'ematiques Pures et Appliqu'ees 48(5-6): 467-474.

Bridges DS., Ishihara H. and Spitters B. (2003) Locating the range of an operator with an adjoint. Proc. Koningklijke Nederlandse Akad. Wetenschappen (Indagationes Mathematicae) 11(3): 1-8.

Bridges DS., van Dalen D. and Ishihara H. (2003) Ishihara's proof technique in constructive analysis. Proc. Koninklijke Nederlandse Akad. Wetenschappen (Indagationes Mathematicae) 14(2): 163-168.

Schuster P., Vita LS. and Bridges D. (2003) Strong versus uniform continuity: A constructive round. Quaestiones Mathematicae 26(2): 171-190.

Bridges D. and Vita LS. (2002) Cauchy nets in the constructive theory of apartness spaces. Scientiâe Mathimaticae Japonicae 56(1): 123-132.

Bridges D., Richman F. and Schuster P. (2002) Trace-class operators. Houston Journal of Mathematics 28: 565-583.

Bridges D., Schuster P. and Vita LS. (2002) Apartness, topology, and uniformity: a constructive view. Mathematical Logic Quarterly 48(1): 16-28.

Bridges DS. and Ward ND. (2002) Kernels of seminorms in constructive analysis. Theoretical Computer Science 284(2): 259-267. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0304-3975(01)00067-6.

Bridges D. (2001) Prime and maximal ideals in constructive ring theory. Comm. Algebra 29(7): 2787-2803.

Bridges D. and Havea R. (2001) A constructive version of the spectral mapping theorem. Math. Logic Quarterly 47(3): 299-304.

Bridges D. and Ishihara H. (2001) Constructive closed range and open mapping theorems. Proc. Koninklijke Nederlandse Akad. Wetenschappen (Indag. Math) 11(4): 509-516.

Bridges D. and Mahalanobis A. (2001) Bounded variation implies regulated: a constructive proof. Journal of Symbolic Logic 66(4): 1695-1700.

Bridges D. and Mahalanobis A. (2001) Increasing, nondecreasing, and virtually continuous functions. J Automata, Languages and Combinatorics 6(2): 139-143.

Bridges D. and Vita LS. (2001) Characterising near continuity constructively. Math. Logic Quarterly 27(4): 535-538.

Bridges D. (2000) A constructive look at functions of bounded variation. Bull. London Math. Soc 32(3): 316-324.

Bridges D. (2000) Constructive methods in Banach algebra theory. Math. Japonica 52(1): 145-161.

Bridges D. (2000) Converses of Bishop's lemma on located sets. Proc. Koninklijke Nederlandse Akad. Wetenschappen (Indag. Math) 11(1): 31-38.

Bridges D. and Havea R. (2000) A constructive analysis of a proof that the numerical range is convex. London Math. Soc. Journal of Mathematics and Computation 3: 191-206.

Bridges D. and Mahalanobis A. (2000) Sequential continuity of functions in recursive analysis. Mathematical Logic Quarterly 46(1): 139-143.

Bridges D. and Svozil K. (2000) Constructive mathematics and quantum physics. International Journal of Theoretical Physics 39: 501-513.

Bridges D. and Vita LS. (2000) Constructing extensions of ultraweakly continuous linear functionals. Journal of Functional Analysis 178(2): 421-434.

Bridges D. and Vita LS. (2000) The weak-operator continuity of left multiplication. Proc. Royal Netherlands Academy (Indag. Math) 11(1): 39-42.

Bridges D. and Vita LS. (2000) The weak-operator sequential continuity of left multiplication. Proc. Koninklijke Nederlandse Akad. Wetenschappen (Indag. Math) 11(1): 39-42.

Bridges D., Ishihara H. and Schuster P. (2000) Sequential compactness in constructive analysis. Österr. Akad. Wiss. Math. -Natur. Kl. Sitzungsberichte II 208: 159-163.

Bridges D., Richman F. and Schuster P. (2000) A weak countable choice principle. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc 128(9): 2749-2752.

Bridges D., Richman F. and Schuster P. (2000) Adjoints, absolute values and polar decompositions. Journal Operator Theory 44: 243-254.

Bridges D. (1999) Can constructive mathematics be applied in physics? Journal of Philosophical Logic 28(5): 439-453.

Bridges D. (1999) Constructive mathematics: a foundation for computable analysis. Theoretical Computer Science 219(1-2): 95-109.

Bridges D. (1999) Constructive methods in mathematical economics. Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie Supplementum 8(Mathematical Utitlity Theory): 1-21.

Bridges D. and Reeves S. (1999) Constructive mathematics, in theory and programming practice. Philosophia Mathematica 7(1): 65-104.

Bridges D. and Richman F. (1999) A constructive proof of Gleason's theorem. Journal of Functional Analysis 162: 287-312.

Bridges D. and Vita LS. (1999) Weak-continuity properties in constructive analysis. Logic Journal of the IGPL 7(3): 277-281.

Bridges D. and Vita LS. (1999) Weak-operator continuity and the existence of adjoints. Math. Logic Quarterly 45: 203-206.

Bridges D., Calude C., Pavlov B. and Stefanescu D. (1999) The constructive implicit function theorem and applications in physics. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 10: 927-934.

Bridges D., Richman F. and Schuster P. (1999) Linear independence and choice. Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 101(1): 95-102.

Bridges D. and Dudley Ward N. (1998) Constructing ultraweakly continuous linear functionals on B(H). Proc. Amer. Math. Soc 126(11): 3347-3353.

Bridges D. and Ishihara H. (1998) A definitive constructive open mapping theorem? Math. Logic Quarterly 44: 545-552.

Bridges D. and Mines R. (1998) Sequentially continuous linear mappings in constructive analysis. Journal of Symbolic Logic 63(2): 579-583.

Bridges D. and Yuchuan W. (1998) Constructing best approximations on a Jordan curve. Journal of Approximation Theory 94(2): 222-234.

Bridges D. and Yuchuan W. (1998) Constructive weak solutions of the Dirichlet problem. Journal of the London Mathematical Society 57(3): 655-667.

Bridges D. and Yuchuan W. (1998) Weak solutions of the Dirichlet Problem and the Locatedness of Hv(0)¹. New Zealand Journal of Mathematics 28(1): 1-5.

Chapters

Bridges D. (2008) Philosophy of Mathematics: Five Questions. Chapter 5. In Hendricks VF; Leitgeb H (Ed.), Philosophy of Mathematics: Five Questions: 45-49. New York: Automatic Press/VIP.

Bridges DS. (2008) A reverse look at Brouwer's Fan Theorem. In van Atten M; Boldini P; Bourdeau M; Heinzmann G (Ed.), One Hundred Years of Intuitionism (1907-2007): 316-325. Basel: Birkhaeuser.

Bridges DS. and Vita LS. (2008) Journey into Apartness Space. In Lindström S; Palmgren E; Segerberg K; Stoltenberg-Hansen V (Ed.), Logicism, Intuitionism, and Formalism: 167-188. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

Bridges DS. (2006) Church's thesis and Bishop's constructivism. In Olszewski A; Wolenski J; Janusz R (Ed.), Church's Thesis After 70 Years: 58-61. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag.

Bridges DS. (2005) Errett Bishop. In Crosilla L; Schuster P (Ed.), From Sets and Types to Topology and Analysis: Towards practicable foundations for constructive mathematics Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Conference Contributions - Other

Bridges DS., Ishihara H. and Schuster PM. (2003) Compactness and continuity, constructively revisited. Edinburgh, UK: Computer Science Logic, 22 Sep 2002.

Bridges D. (2001) Constructive comments on Dini's Theorem. Constanta, Romania: Combinatorics, Computability and Logic (Proceedings of DMTCS'01)., 2 Jul 2001.

Bridges D. (2001) Reality and virtual reality in Mathematics. Bucharest, Romania: Millennium III, Black Sea University and Romanian Academy.

Bridges D. and Ishihara H. (2001) Constructive unbounded operators. San Servolo/Venice, Italy: Reuniting the Antipodes - Constructive and Nonstandard Views of the Continuum, Proceedings of the Symposium, May 17-22, 1999,, 17 May 2001.

Bridges S. and Vita LS. (2001) Constructive apartness spaces. Anogia, Crete: Proceedings of the 3rd Panhellenic Logic Conference, University of Crete and National Technical University of Athens, 1 Jul 2001.

Schuster P., Vita LS. and Bridges D. (2001) Apartness as a relation between subsets. Constanta, Romania,: Proceedings of The Third International Conference on Combinatorics, Computability and Logic, DMTCS Monographs, 2 Jul 2001.

Vita LS. and Bridges D. (1999) Constructive notes on uniform and locally convex spaces. Iasi, Romania: Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium, FCT'99, 26 Jun 1999.

Bridges D. (1998) Constructive truth in practice. Mussomeli, Sicily: Truth in Mathematics (Proceedings of Conference, 13-21 September 1995), 1 Jan 1998.

Additional Publications

Bridges DS. (2008) Utility Maximization, Choice and Preference. SIAM Review 50(3): 597-599. [Book Review].

Bridges DS. (2007) Colocatedness and Lebesgue Integrability. Siena, Italy: Computability in Europe (CiE) 2007, 18-23 Jun 2007. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 4497(Computation and Logic in the Real World): 98-104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73001-9.

Bridges DS. (2007) Romanian Connections. : 260-261. Bucureşti: Editura Academiei Române. [Collection of invited articles].

Affiliations

Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) (Professional Organisation): Corresponding Fellow
Royal Society of New Zealand (RSNZ) (Professional Organisation): Fellow (FRSNZ)

Research Groups

Centre for Computable and Constructive Mathematics (CCCM)