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Christopher Hollings

Dr Christopher Hollings

MMath PhD FIMA
Status
Academic Faculty

Associate Professor of Mathematics and its History

Faculty Teaching Advisor

Clifford Norton Senior Research Fellow in the History of Mathematics at The Queen's College

+44 1865 273557
Contact form
https://www.christopherhollings.com/
ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3181-1968
Research groups
  • Algebra
  • History of Mathematics
Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Highlighted books
Oxford's Sedleian professors of natural philosophy: The first 400 years Hollings, C Mccartney, M (14 Dec 2023)
Beyond the Learned Academy: The Practice of Mathematics, 1600-1850 Beeley, P Hollings, C (01 Jan 2023)
Meeting under the integral sign? The Oslo congress of mathematicians on the eve of the second world war Hollings, C Siegmund-Schultze, R (01 Jan 2021)
Ada Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist Hollings, C Martin, U Rice, A (2018)
Wagner’s Theory of Generalised Heaps Hollings, C Lawson, M (2017)
Teaching

BO1.1. History of Mathematics

Prelims and Part A Pure Mathematics in Queen's

Research interests

History of mathematics: the development of abstract algebra during the 19th and 20th centuries; Soviet mathematics; communications between mathematicians in East and West during the Cold War; historiography of ancient mathematics

Highlighted publications
Oxford mathematics at a low ebb? An 1855 dispute over examination results
Hollings, C Annals of Science volume 81 issue 4 563-596 (11 Dec 2023)
T. E. Peet, a mathematician among Egyptologists?
Hollings, C Parkinson, R Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics 183-198 (14 Nov 2022)
Contrasting aims and approaches in the study of ancient Egyptian mathematics in the 1920s
Hollings, C Parkinson, R Revue d'Histoire des Mathematiques volume 28 issue 2 183-286 (01 Nov 2022)
A century of astronomers: from Halley to Rigaud
Chapman, A Hollings, C Oxford's Savilian Professors of Geometry 55-91 (26 Jan 2022)
Two letters from Otto Neugebauer to Thomas Eric Peet on ancient Egyptian mathematics
Hollings, C Parkinson, R Historia Mathematica volume 52 66-98 (04 Jun 2020)
Prizes, awards, and scholarships

Member of the Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters (Agder Vitenskapsakademi), Norway

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London Mathematical Society Good Practice Scheme Athena SWAN Silver Award (ECU Gender Charter) Stonewall Silver Employer 2022

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