Catherine Goldstein


Catherine Goldstein is a French number theorist and historian of mathematics who works as a director of research at the . 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.