Hilary Priestley

Hilary Ann Priestley
Nationality British
Alma mater University of Oxford
Scientific career
Fields Lattice theory, universal algebra, mathematical logic
Institutions University of Oxford
Thesis Topics in Ordered Topological Spaces, Including a Representation Theory for Distributive Lattices[1] (1970)
Doctoral advisor David 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 that are important in the study of distributive lattices; such topological spaces are now usually called Priestley spaces in her honour.[3] The term "Priestley duality" is also used.[4] In addition, Priestly has contributed to the representation theory of distributive lattices.

Following Priestley's academic advisors back by 15 generations on the Mathematics Genealogy Project database, one arrives at Isaac Newton.[1]

Books

  • Priestley, Hilary A. (2003). Introduction to Complex Analysis (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-852562-2.
  • Davey, Brian A.; Priestley, Hilary A. (2002). Introduction to Lattices and Order (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521784511.
  • Priestley, Hilary A. (1997). Introduction to Integration. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-850123-7.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Hilary Priestley at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  2. ↑ Gardam, Tim (11 July 2006). "Titles of Distinction awarded to eight Fellows". Retrieved 2014-06-11.
  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.
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