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Goldstein at the ICM 2018

Catherine Goldstein (born July 5, 1958 in Paris) is a French number theorist and historian of mathematics who works as a director of research at the Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu [ fr] (IMJ). She was president of L'association femmes et mathématiques in 1991. [1]

Education and career

Goldstein studied at the Ecole normale supérieure from 1976 to 1980, earning an agrégation in mathematics in 1978. [1] She completed a doctorate of the third cycle in 1981, with a dissertation on p-adic L-functions and Iwasawa theory supervised by John H. Coates. [1] [2]

She worked at the University of Paris-Sud from 1980 until 2002, when she moved to IMJ. [1]

Contributions and recognition

Goldstein has been listed as one of the plenary speakers at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians. [3] With Norbert Schappacher and Joachim Schwermer, she is editor of the book The shaping of arithmetic after C. F. Gauss's Disquisitiones arithmeticae. [4] [5] [6]

Personal

Catherine is the daughter of the poet Isidore Isou. [7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2017-06-25
  2. ^ Catherine Goldstein at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Plenary Speakers Archived 2017-12-07 at the Wayback Machine, ICM 2018, retrieved 2017-06-25
  4. ^ Review of The shaping of arithmetic by Victor J. Katz, 2008, MR 2308276
  5. ^ Review of The shaping of arithmetic by Jeremy J. Gray, MAA Reviews, June 2007
  6. ^ Review of The shaping of arithmetic by Thomas Archibald, 2011, Isis 102 (2): 368–369, doi: 10.1086/661687
  7. ^ Lemaitre, Maurice. "Isou in London". www.mauricelemaitre.org. Maurice Lemaitre. Retrieved 9 March 2018.

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