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
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
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