Hilary Priestley

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 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 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]

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. 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.

External links

• Hilary Priestley home page
• Professor Hilary Priestley profile at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
• Professor Hilary Ann Priestley profile at St Anne's College, Oxford
• Hilary Priestley on ResearchGate