Catherine Goldstein

{{short description|French mathematician and historian of mathematics}}

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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 {{ill|Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu|fr}} (IMJ). She was president of L'association femmes et mathématiques in 1991.{{r|cv}}

Education and career

Goldstein studied at the Ecole normale supérieure from 1976 to 1980, earning an agrégation in mathematics in 1978.{{r|cv}} 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.{{r|cv|mgp}}

She worked at the University of Paris-Sud from 1980 until 2002, when she moved to IMJ.{{r|cv}}

Contributions and recognition

Goldstein has been listed as one of the plenary speakers at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians.{{r|icm}} With Norbert Schappacher and Joachim Schwermer, she is editor of the book The shaping of arithmetic after C. F. Gauss's Disquisitiones arithmeticae.{{r|katz|gray|isis}}

References

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[https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~catherine.goldstein/vitae.html Curriculum vitae], retrieved 2017-06-25

[http://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/the-shaping-of-arithmetic-after-c-f-gausss-disquisitiones-arithmeticae Review of The shaping of arithmetic] by Jeremy J. Gray, MAA Reviews, June 2007

[http://www.icm2018.org/portal/en/icm-speakers Plenary Speakers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171207193725/http://www.icm2018.org/portal/en/icm-speakers# |date=2017-12-07 }}, ICM 2018, retrieved 2017-06-25

Review of The shaping of arithmetic by Thomas Archibald, 2011, Isis 102 (2): 368–369, {{doi|10.1086/661687}}

Review of The shaping of arithmetic by Victor J. Katz, 2008, {{MR|2308276}}

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