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Catherine Goldstein (born July 5, 1958 in Paris) is a Frenchnumber theorist andhistorian of mathematics who works as a director of research at theInstitut de mathématiques de Jussieu [fr] (IMJ). She was president ofL'association femmes et mathématiques in 1991.[1]
Goldstein studied at theEcole normale supérieure from 1976 to 1980, earning anagrégation in mathematics in 1978.[1] She completed adoctorate of the third cycle in 1981, with a dissertation onp-adic L-functions andIwasawa theory supervised byJohn H. Coates.[1][2]
She worked at theUniversity of Paris-Sud from 1980 until 2002, when she moved to IMJ.[1]
Goldstein has been listed as one of the plenary speakers at the 2018International Congress of Mathematicians.[3] WithNorbert Schappacher andJoachim Schwermer, she is editor of the bookThe shaping of arithmetic after C. F. Gauss's Disquisitiones arithmeticae.[4][5][6]
