Hilary Priestley
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AlmamaterUniversity of Oxford
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
Hilary Ann Priestley | |
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| 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] |
| Doctoral students | Michael H. Albert, Doreen Thomas |
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; 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]
