Hilary Priestley

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  (1970)
Doctoral advisor	David Edwards

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.

Hilary Priestley introduced ordered separable topological spaces that are important in the study of distributive lattices; such topological spaces are now usually called Priestley spaces in her honour. The term "Priestley duality" is also used. In addition, Priestly has contributed to the representation theory of distributive lattices.

Following Priestley's academic advisors back by 15 generations on the Mathematics Genealogy Project database, one arrives at Isaac Newton.

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.

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 at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Hilary Priestley on ResearchGate