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; such topological spaces are now usually called Priestley spaces in her honour. The term "Priestley duality" is also used for her application of these spaces in the representation theory of distributive lattices.
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Professor Hilary Priestley profile at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford Professor Hilary Ann Priestley profile at St Anne's College, Oxford Hilary Priestley on ResearchGate
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the University of Oxford British women mathematicians 20th-century English mathematicians 21st-century English mathematicians Algebraists Lattice theorists Fellows of St Anne's College, Oxford 20th-century women mathematicians 21st-century women mathematicians