Leo Corry

I am a historian of mathematics working at Tel-Aviv University. You can see more about my work, here: http://www.tau.ac.il/~corry/

My research has focused on an attempt to understand the historical development of some of the main threads of twentieth-century mathematics. Among other things my research has dealt with the rise of modern algebra, the development of the idea of a mathematical structure, the rise of the modern axiomatic method, the introduction of digital computers into research in pure mathematics, and the works of some leading figures such as David Hilbert, Emmy Noether, Nicolas Bourbaki, and others. More recently I have also become interested in the Euclidean tradition of the middle ages and the renaissance, particularly around the question of the changing relationships between arithmetic and geometry.

As part of a more general academic interest in history and philosophy of science, in 1999-2009 I was editor of the journal Science in Context (Cambridge University Press), and in 2003-2009 I was director of the Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of Science at Tel-Aviv University. In 2014-15, I was director of the Zvi Yavetz Graduate School of Historical Studies at TAU. Since November 2015 I am Dean of Humanities at Tel Aviv University.

I also have a keen interest in Latin American history, culture and literature. I wrote an introductory overview (in Hebrew) to the prose of Jorge Luis Borges, and also translated several books into Hebrew, including Mario Vargas Llosa's "La Casa Verde".