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.
Books
Reviews of Introduction to Lattices and Order: T. S. Blyth, , ; Jonathan Cohen, ACM SIGACT News, ; Amy Davidow, Amer. Math. Monthly, ; Josef Niederle, ; Václav Slavík,
References
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 on ResearchGate