Catherine Goldstein ICM 2018 (44462085662)

Catherine Goldstein (born July 5, 1958 in Paris) is a French number theorist and

historian of mathematics The history of mathematics deals with the origin of discoveries in mathematics and the mathematical methods and notation of the past. Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge, written examples of new mathematical developments ...

who works as a director of research at the (IMJ). She was president of L'association femmes et mathématiques in 1991.

Education and career

Goldstein studied at the Ecole normale supérieure from 1976 to 1980, earning an

agrégation In France, the ''agrégation'' () is a competitive examination for civil service in the French public education system. Candidates for the examination, or ''agrégatifs'', become ''agrégés'' once they are admitted to the position of ''professe ...

in mathematics in 1978. She completed a

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''l ...

of the third cycle in 1981, with a dissertation on ''p''-adic L-functions and

Iwasawa theory In number theory, Iwasawa theory is the study of objects of arithmetic interest over infinite towers of number fields. It began as a Galois module theory of ideal class groups, initiated by (), as part of the theory of cyclotomic fields. In the ea ...

supervised by

John H. Coates John Henry Coates (26 January 1945 – 9 May 2022) was an Australian mathematician who was the Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom from 1986 to 2012. Early life and education Coates ...

. She worked at the

University of Paris-Sud Paris-Sud University (French: ''Université Paris-Sud''), also known as University of Paris — XI (or as Université d'Orsay before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, in ...

from 1980 until 2002, when she moved to IMJ.

Contributions and recognition

Goldstein has been listed as one of the plenary speakers at the 2018

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...

. With Norbert Schappacher and Joachim Schwermer, she is editor of the book ''The shaping of arithmetic after C. F. Gauss's Disquisitiones arithmeticae''.

Personal

Catherine is the daughter of the poet

Isidore Isou Isidore Isou (; 29 January 1925 – 28 July 2007), born Isidor Goldstein, was a Romanian-born French poet, dramaturge, novelist, film director, economist, and visual artist who lived in the 20th century. He was the founder of Lettrism, an art ...

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