Biography:Hilary Priestley

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Short description: British mathematician
Hilary Ann Priestley
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Scientific career
FieldsLattice theory, universal algebra, mathematical logic
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
ThesisTopics in Ordered Topological Spaces, Including a Representation Theory for Distributive Lattices[1] (1970)
Doctoral advisorDavid Edwards[1]

Hilary Ann Priestley is a British mathematician. She is a professor at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, where she has been Tutor in Mathematics since 1972.[2]

Hilary Priestley introduced ordered separable topological spaces; such topological spaces are now usually called Priestley spaces in her honour.[3] The term "Priestley duality" is also used for her application of these spaces in the representation theory of distributive lattices.[4]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Hilary Priestley at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  2. Gardam, Tim (11 July 2006). "Titles of Distinction awarded to eight Fellows". http://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/about/news/item/article/titles-of-distinction-awarded-to-ei. 
  3. Stralka, Albert (December 1980). "A partially ordered space which is not a priestley space". Semigroup Forum (Springer) 20 (1): 293–297. doi:10.1007/BF02572690. 
  4. Cignoli, R.; Lafalce, S.; Petrovich, A. (September 1991). "Remarks on Priestley duality for distributive lattices". Order (Springer) 8 (3): 299–315. doi:10.1007/BF00383451. 
  5. Reviews of Introduction to Lattices and Order: T. S. Blyth, MR1058437, MR1902334; Jonathan Cohen, ACM SIGACT News, doi:10.1145/1233481.1233488; Amy Davidow, Amer. Math. Monthly, JSTOR 2323967; Josef Niederle, Zbl 0701.06001; Václav Slavík, Zbl 1002.06001

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