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Catherine Goldstein

b. 1958

French mathematician and historian of mathematics

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Born 1958. Catherine Goldstein is a French mathematician and historian of mathematics.

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 (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 mathematics in 1978. 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.

She worked at the University of Paris-Sud 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. With Norbert Schappacher and Joachim Schwermer, she is editor of the book The shaping of arithmetic after C. F. Gauss's Disquisitiones arithmeticae.

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Birth century
Nationality
Education
École normale supérieure de jeunes filles
Positions held
President, Director of Research at CNRS
Employers
National Center for Scientific Research, National Institute of Mathematical Sciences and their Interactions
Awards
D'Alembert Prize

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French mathematician and historian of mathematics

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Catherine Goldstein was born on 5 July 1958 in Paris.

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Catherine Goldstein is a mathematician and historian of mathematics.

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Catherine Goldstein is French.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Catherine Goldstein

· Wikidata: Q1050970

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