Leo Corry
Leo Corry (* 1956 in Santiago de Chile ) is an Israeli science historian of Chilean origin.
Life
Corry went to school in Caracas in Venezuela, where he studied mathematics at the Universidad Simón Bolívar with a licentiate degree in 1979. He then studied at the University of Tel Aviv , where he obtained his master's degree in 1983 (Splitting data in cohomology classes, with Shmuel Rosset ) and received her PhD in history of science with Sabetai Unguru and Rosset in 1990 ( The origins of category theory as a mathematical discipline ). From 1985 he was instructor, 1996 lecturer, 2004 associate professor and from 2007 professor at the Cohn Institute for the History of Science at Tel Aviv University, of which he was director from 2003 to 2009. In 1994/95 he was at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 1995/96 at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and in 2006 at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .
Corry dealt with the development of modern algebra and number theory (including Harry Vandiver ) and the philosophy of mathematics (including the Bourbaki school ), with Albert Einstein , David Hilbert and his school and the history of science in Latin America, and with Jorge Luis Borges . Among other things, he discovered new documents with John Stachel and Jürgen Renn on the Hilbert Einstein priority dispute, which in turn led to a scientific dispute.
In 2006 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid (On the origin of Hilbert's 6th problem: physics and the empiricist approach to axiomatization).
From 1999 to 2009 and from 2011 he is editor of Science in Context .
Fonts
- Modern algebra and the rise of mathematical structures . Birkhäuser, Science Networks Volume 17, 1996, 2nd edition 2003
- David Hilbert and the Axiomatization of Physics (1898–1918): From “Fundamentals of Geometry” to “Fundamentals of Physics”. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2004. (also in Archimedes. New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology , Volume 10, 2004)
- David Hilbert and the Axiomatization of Physics (1894-1905) , Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Volume 51, 1997, pp. 83-198.
- A Brief History of Numbers . New York: Oxford University Press, 2015
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Portrait at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin
- ↑ Leo Corry in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ^ Corry The Literary World of Jorge Luis Borges (Hebrew), Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense Publications: The Broadcast University, 1997
- ^ Corry, Renn, Stachel: Belated Decision in the Hilbert-Einstein Priority Dispute . Science Vol. 278, 1997, p. 1270.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Corry, Leo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli science historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Chile |