Prof. Christopher Hollings

MMath PhD FIMA FHEA

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) doi:10.1093/oso/9780192843210.001.0001

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) doi:10.1007/978-3-319-63621-4

Scientific Communication Across the Iron Curtain Hollings, C (2016) doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25346-6

Prizes, awards, and scholarships

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

Teaching

BO1.1. History of Mathematics

CO1.1. Newton's Principia

Part C and OMMS dissertations in the History of Mathematics

Prelims and Part A Pure Mathematics in Queen's

Option paper 'Approaches to the History of Mathematics' for the MSc in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology (History Faculty)

Highlighted publications

Proving the binomial theorem in Britain, 1750–1830

Hollings, C Wardhaugh, B British Journal for the History of Mathematics (04 Jun 2026) doi:10.1080/26375451.2026.2648415

The informal diplomacies of Oswald Veblen

Hollings, C Kennedy, S Luciano, E Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society volume 63 issue 3 491-529 (29 Apr 2026) doi:10.1090/bull/1886

Triangulating ancient Egyptian mathematics

Hollings, C Parkinson, R Notices of the American Mathematical Society volume 72 issue 4 406-421 (13 Mar 2025) doi:10.1090/noti3139

Mathematical study in Berlin 1906–1911: the notebooks of A. K. Sushkevich

Hollings, C Mathematical Intelligencer volume 47 issue 2 145-156 (18 Aug 2024) doi:10.1007/s00283-024-10365-y

Beyond the Learned Academy: The Practice of Mathematics, 1600-1850 Beeley, P Hollings, C (01 Jan 2023) doi:10.1093/oso/9780198863953.001.0001

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