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

• Collins, C. B. (1971), "More qualitative cosmology", Communications in Mathematical Physics, 23 (2): 137–158, Bibcode:1971CMaPh..23..137C, doi:10.1007/bf01877756, S2CID   121299977 .
• Collins, C. B.; Hawking, S. W. (1973), "Why is the Universe Isotropic?", Astrophysical Journal, 180: 317–334, Bibcode:1973ApJ...180..317C, doi: 10.1086/151965 .
• Collins, C. B.; Hawking, S. W.; Sciama, D. W. (1973), "The rotation and distortion of the universe", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 162 (4): 307–320, Bibcode:1973MNRAS.162..307C, doi: 10.1093/mnras/162.4.307 .
• Collins, C. B.; Ellis, G. F. R. (1979), "Singularities in Bianchi cosmologies", Physics Reports, 56 (2): 65–105, Bibcode:1979PhR....56...65C, doi:10.1016/0370-1573(79)90065-6 .
• Collins, C. B.; Glass, E. N.; Wilkinson, D. A. (1980), "Exact spatially homogeneous cosmologies", General Relativity and Gravitation, 12 (10): 805–823, Bibcode:1980GReGr..12..805C, doi:10.1007/bf00763057, S2CID   123332177 .

See also

• List of University of Waterloo people

References

1. Faculty profile ^{[ permanent dead link ]}, 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, vol. 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 .