Catherine Goldstein

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 (IMJ). She was president of L'association femmes et mathématiques in 1991.[1]

This article is about the mathematician. For the fictional movie character, see Driven to Kill.
Catherine Goldstein and Jim Ritter, Oberwolfach 2005

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]

gollark: Every block, item, function, event and type, you mean.
gollark: No computer needed.
gollark: Actually, if you just have an infinite number of computer scientists they can simulate a Turing machine together.
gollark: Why use electricity and not light or something?
gollark: Great, I'll forward that to the President of Physics.

References
  1. 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, MR2308276
  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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