Prof. Christopher Hollings

MMath PhD FIMA

Status

Academic Faculty

Associate Professor of the History of Mathematics

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

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)

Prizes, awards, and scholarships

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

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

Triangulating ancient Egyptian mathematics

Hollings, C Parkinson, R Notices of the American Mathematical Society volume 72 issue 4 406-421 (13 Mar 2025)

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)

Teaching

BO1.1. History of Mathematics

Part C and OMMS dissertations in the History of Mathematics

Prelims and Part A Pure Mathematics in Queen's