Dr Christopher Hollings

MMath PhD FIMA

Status

Academic Faculty

Departmental Lecturer in Mathematics and its History

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

+44 1865 273557

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ORCID iD

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3181-1968

Research groups

Address

Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG

Highlighted books

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 (09 Sep 2017)

Scientific Communication Across the Iron Curtain Hollings, C (2016)

Mathematics across the Iron Curtain A History of the Algebraic Theory of Semigroups Hollings, C (16 Jul 2014)

Teaching

O1. History of Mathematics (Part B)

Prelims and Part A Pure Mathematics in Queen's

Highlighted publications

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: The First 400 Years 55-92 (01 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)

‘Nobody could possibly misunderstand what a group is’: a study in early twentieth-century group axiomatics

Hollings, C Archive for History of Exact Sciences volume 71 issue 5 409-481 (20 Jul 2017)

The early mathematical education of Ada Lovelace

Hollings, C Martin, U Rice, A BSHM Bulletin volume 32 issue 3 221-234 (01 Jun 2017)

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