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Professor John Crossley

Emeritus Professor, Monash University
MA, DPhil
Quondam Fellow since 1969

I originally worked in mathematical logic, especially with Michael Dummett (see https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/professor-sir-michael-dummett), with whom I formulated the Joint Honour School of Mathematics and Philosophy in 1969. After moving to Monash I continued working in logic, then began work on the history of mathematics in the late ’70s, and after that moved into theoretical computer science in 1982. In the 1990s the history work led into music theory in Paris, ca 1300. Around 2007 I started working on the early colonial Spanish Philippines.

My current research projects (2024) are:

  • China and the Philippines in the sixteenth century (with Anthony Wah-Cheung Lun, Monash University)
  • The Lilly Historia, transcription and translation of a Spanish MS ca 1600 (with Clive Griffin, Trinity College)
  • Music theory in Paris, c. 1300 (with Constant Mews and Carol Williams, Monash University)