C. B. Collins
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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.[https://uwaterloo.ca/applied-mathematics/about/people/cbcollin Faculty profile], Univ. of Waterloo, retrieved 2015-07-22.
Collins earned his Ph.D. in 1972 from the University of Cambridge under the supervision of F. Gerard Friedlander.{{mathgenealogy|id=127502|name=Christopher Barry Collins}}
Among his works with Hawking is a 1973 paper that uses the anthropic principle to provide a solution to the flatness problem.{{citation|title=Space and Time in the Modern Universe|first=P. C. W.|last=Davies|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1977|isbn=9780521291514|page=215|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SZI5AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA215}}.{{citation|title=Cosmic Enigmas|volume=10|series=Masters of Modern Physics|first=Joseph|last=Silk|publisher=Springer|year=1994|isbn=9781563960611|page=35|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ovXYxdSuOhkC&pg=PA35}}.{{citation|title=The Anthropic Principle: Man as the Focal Point of Nature|first=Reinhard|last=Breuer|publisher=Springer|year=2013|isbn=9781489967411|page=111|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXkECAAAQBAJ&pg=PA111}}.
Selected publications
- {{citation
| last = Collins | first = C. B.
| bibcode = 1971CMaPh..23..137C
| doi = 10.1007/bf01877756
| issue = 2
| journal = Communications in Mathematical Physics
| pages = 137–158
| title = More qualitative cosmology
| volume = 23
| year = 1971| s2cid = 121299977
| url = http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.cmp/1103857597
}}.
- {{citation
| last1 = Collins | first1 = C. B.
| last2 = Hawking | first2 = S. W. | author2-link = Stephen Hawking
| bibcode = 1973ApJ...180..317C
| journal = Astrophysical Journal
| pages = 317–334
| title = Why is the Universe Isotropic?
| volume = 180
| year = 1973|doi = 10.1086/151965 | doi-access = free
}}.
- {{citation
| last1 = Collins | first1 = C. B.
| last2 = Hawking | first2 = S. W. | author2-link = Stephen Hawking
| last3 = Sciama | first3 = D. W. | author3-link = Dennis W. Sciama
| bibcode = 1973MNRAS.162..307C
| doi = 10.1093/mnras/162.4.307
| issue = 4
| journal = Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
| pages = 307–320
| title = The rotation and distortion of the universe
| volume = 162
| year = 1973| doi-access = free
}}.
- {{citation
| last1 = Collins | first1 = C. B.
| last2 = Ellis | first2 = G. F. R. | author2-link = George F. R. Ellis
| bibcode = 1979PhR....56...65C
| doi = 10.1016/0370-1573(79)90065-6
| issue = 2
| journal = Physics Reports
| pages = 65–105
| title = Singularities in Bianchi cosmologies
| volume = 56
| year = 1979}}.
- {{citation
| last1 = Collins | first1 = C. B.
| last2 = Glass | first2 = E. N.
| last3 = Wilkinson | first3 = D. A.
| bibcode = 1980GReGr..12..805C
| doi = 10.1007/bf00763057
| issue = 10
| journal = General Relativity and Gravitation
| pages = 805–823
| title = Exact spatially homogeneous cosmologies
| volume = 12
| year = 1980| s2cid = 123332177
}}.
See also
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