Rob Goldblatt

Email: Rob.Goldblatt [at] msor.vuw.ac.nz
Phone:+64 4 463-5660
Fax:+64 4 463-5045
I am Professor of Pure Mathematics in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, and a member of the Centre for Logic, Language and Computation.

My academic whakapapa can be traced back to Leibniz.

Research Interests

My main areas of interest are mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics, and abstract algebra. I have worked on the model theory of various intensional logics (modal logic, logic of programs and of topoi), as well as on related aspects of algebraic logic (varieties of Boolean algebras with operators), and logical questions about coalgebras. My current focus is on a new approach to possible-worlds semantics for quantifiers in modal and substructural logics.

I have a long-held fascination with Nonstandard Analysis, Abraham Robinson's wonderful theory of the infinitely small and large, and much else besides. I have been particularly interested in the pedagogical issue of how best to approach the exposition of this subject, and have written a book about it, Lectures on the Hyperreals: An Introduction to Nonstandard Analysis, based on my fourth-year course.


My book Topoi: the Categorial Analysis of Logic (North-Holland 1979, Revised Edition 1984) has now been reprinted as a paperback by Dover Publications, and is available from Amazon.

The book is still available in the Cornell University Library Historical Math Monographs Collection, and can be viewed on-screen by connecting to that site and browsing by author.

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