C. B. Collins

For the political figure, see C. B. Collins (treasurer).

Christopher Barry Collins is a cosmologist who has written many papers with Stephen Hawking. He is a professor emeritus of applied mathematics at the University of Waterloo.[1]

Collins earned his Ph.D. in 1972 from the University of Cambridge under the supervision of F. Gerard Friedlander.[2] Among his works with Hawking is a 1973 paper that uses the anthropic principle to provide a solution to the flatness problem.[3][4][5]

Selected publications

References

  1. Faculty profile, Univ. of Waterloo, retrieved 2015-07-22.
  2. Christopher Barry Collins at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Davies, P. C. W. (1977), Space and Time in the Modern Universe, Cambridge University Press, p. 215, ISBN 9780521291514.
  4. Silk, Joseph (1994), Cosmic Enigmas, Masters of Modern Physics 10, Springer, p. 35, ISBN 9781563960611.
  5. Breuer, Reinhard (2013), The Anthropic Principle: Man as the Focal Point of Nature, Springer, p. 111, ISBN 9781489967411.
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