Catherine Goldstein
Catherine Goldstein (born July 5, 1958 in Paris ) is a French mathematician ( number theory ) and mathematician.
Goldstein studied from 1976 to 1980 at the École normal supérieure (Agrégation in Mathematics 1978) and received his doctorate in 1981 at the University of Paris-Süd (Orsay) with John Coates ( Fonctions L p-adiques et théorie d'Iwasawa ). From 1980 she did research as Chargée de Recherches at the University of Paris-South and from 2003 at the University of Paris (Institut Mathematique de Jussieu). She has been Research Director there since 2003. In 1995/96 and 1998 she was visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
Goldstein started out as a number theorist. Since the 1990s she has mainly been concerned with the history of number theory, for example with Pierre de Fermat , Charles Hermite and Carl Friedrich Gauß . In 2018 she is plenary speaker at the ICM in Rio ( Long-term history and ephemeral configurations ).
Fonts
- Algebra in number theory from Fermat to Lagrange , in Erhard Scholz (editor) History of Algebra , BI Wissenschaftsverlag 1990
- Un théorème de Fermat et ses lecteurs. In: Histoires de science. Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, Saint-Denis 1995, 232 pages, ISBN 2-910381-10-2
- with Norbert Schappacher , Joachim Schwermer (editor): The shaping of arithmetic after Carl Friedrich Gauß´ Disquisitiones Arithmeticae , Springer 2007 (therein The Hermitian form of reading the Disquisitiones , with Schappacher: A book in search of a discipline (1801-1860) , Several Disciplines in a book (1860-1900) )
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| SURNAME | Goldstein, Catherine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th July 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |