Christopher Hollings
Departmental Lecturer in Mathematics and its Histo
Mathematics
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
Biography
Dr Christopher Hollings was both an undergraduate and a postgraduate student at the University of York, where he obtained an MMath and a PhD. Upon completion of the latter, he went to Portugal to take up a two-year research post at the Centro de Álgebra da Universidade de Lisboa. A further brief research position followed at the University of Manchester, after which he moved to Oxford in early 2010. Since then, he have held a range of different college and departmental positions within Oxford (including the Clifford Norton Studentship at Queen's, 2011-2013). He returned to Queen's in October 2015.
Research Interest
History of mathematics: the development of abstract algebra; Soviet mathematics; communications between mathematicians in East and West during the Cold War
Publications
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Hollings C. The acceptance of abstract algebra in the USSR, as viewed through periodic surveys of the progress of Soviet mathematical science. Historia Mathematica. 2015 May 31;42(2):193-222.
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Hollings C, Martin U, Rice A. The Lovelace–De Morgan mathematical correspondence: A critical re-appraisal. Historia Mathematica. 2017 May 9.
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Hollings C, Martin U, Rice A. The early mathematical education of Ada Lovelace. BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics. 2017 Jun 1:1-4.
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Hollings CD. ‘Nobody could possibly misunderstand what a group is’: a study in early twentieth-century group axiomatics. Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 2017:1-73.
