Leo Corry The Cohn Institute for History
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Publications - Books, Edited Volumes

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1. Books:


Contents
Intro

WEIZAC: An Israeli Pioneering Adventure in Electronic Computing (1945-1963)
(with Raya Leviathan). Heidelberg, Springer Verlag (2019), 120 pp..


Sample

Alejo Carpentier’s “Concierto Barroco”, (Hebrew: קונצ'רטו בארוקו – אלחו קרפנטייר). Fully annotated Hebrew translation, with a biographic essay, introduction and comments. Tel Aviv, TAU Academic Publications (2019- Forthcoming).



Sample Chapter
Reviews
A Brief History of Numbers , Oxford, Oxford University Press (2015), 336 pp.
Turkish translation: Sayıların Kısa Tarihi, Doruk Yayinlari (2017).
Italian translation: Breve Storia dei Numeri, Hoepli (2019).


   

Reviews
The Controversy
David Hilbert and the Axiomatization of Physics (1898-1918):
From Grundlagen der Geometrie to Grundlagen der Physik
(Archimedes)
Springer Verlag (2004),  513 pp.

Reviews
Modern Algebra and the Rise of Mathematical Structures,
Springer Verlag (Birkhäuser 1996- Second, revised edition: October 2004).   452 pp.         


 

The Literary World of Jorge Luis Borges (Hebrew),    
עולמו הספרותי של חורחה לואיס בורחס

Tel Aviv, Ministry of Defense Publications, The Broadcast University 
האוניברסיטה המשודרת, תל-אביב, 1997



2. Edited and Co-edited Volumes:

Science in an Israeli Context: Case Studies, Editor for a Special Issue of Science in Context, Autumn 2010, Cambridge University Press.


Science in the Latin American Context, Editor for a Special Issue of Science in Context, Spring 2005, Cambridge University Press.


New Studies in the History of Modern Mathematics, Editor for a Special Issue of Science in Context, Spring 2004, Cambridge University Press.


Studies on Science in Latin America, Guest Editor for a Special Issue of EIAL (Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe), Vol. 14 (1), 2003, Tel-Aviv Univeristy.