Leo Corry

Leo Corry
ליאו קורי
Born	1956 Santiago, Chile
Nationality	Israeli
Academic background
Education	Tel Aviv University Ph.D. (1990)
Thesis	The origins of category theory as a mathematical discipline (1990)
Doctoral advisor	Sabetai Unguru
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	History of mathematics

Leo Corry (Hebrew: ליאו קורי, born 1956 in

Biography

Corry migrated with his Jewish family to

Corry has done research on the development of modern algebra and number theory (including computational number theory done by Harry Vandiver, D. H. Lehmer, and Emma Lehmer) and the philosophy of mathematics (including the Bourbaki School). His research has also dealt with Albert Einstein, Hermann Minkowski, David Hilbert and his school, the history of Latin American science, and Jorge Luis Borges.^[3] With John Stachel and Jürgen Renn, Corry discovered new documents concerning the priority dispute between Hilbert and Einstein, and these new documents support Einstein against Hilbert.^[4][5]

In 2006, Corry was an invited speaker at the ICM in Madrid with a talk On the origin of Hilbert's sixth problem: physics and the empiricist approach to axiomatization.^[6]

From 1999 to 2009 and from 2011 to 2013, he was editor of Science in Context.^{[citation needed]}

Selected publications

• Modern algebra and the rise of mathematical structures. Birkhäuser, Science Networks, vol. 17, 1996, 2nd edition 2003^[7]
• Corry, Leo (1997). "Hermann Minkowski and the postulate of relativity". Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 51 (4): 273–314.
  S2CID 27016039
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• David Hilbert and the Axiomatization of Physics (1898–1918): From Grundlagen der Geometrie to Grundlagen der Physik. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2004. (also in Archimedes. New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, vol. 10, 2004)
• Corry, Leo (2008). "Number crunching vs. number theory: computers and FLT, from Kummer to SWAC (1850–1960), and beyond". Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 62 (4): 393–455.
  S2CID 53544004
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• Corry, Leo (2008). "Fermat meets SWAC: Vandiver, the Lehmers, computers, and number theory". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 30 (1): 38–49.
  S2CID 8439205
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• "Hunting Prime Numbers from Human to Electronic Computers". The Rutherford Journal – the New Zealand Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. 2008.
• Corry, Leo (2010). "On the history of Fermat's last theorem: fresh views on an old tale". Mathematische Semesterberichte. 57 (1): 123–138.
  S2CID 111387649
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• A Brief History of Numbers. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015

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