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
Research groups
Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Highlighted books
Teaching
O1. History of Mathematics (Part B)
Prelims and Part A Pure Mathematics in Queen's
Highlighted publications
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) The Lovelace--De Morgan mathematical correspondence: A critical re-appraisal
Hollings, C Martin, U Rice, A Historia Mathematica volume 44 issue 3 202-231 (09 May 2017) The acceptance of abstract algebra in the USSR, as viewed through periodic surveys of the progress of Soviet mathematical science
Hollings, C Historia Mathematica volume 42 issue 2 193-222 (May 2015) 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