| Hilary Ann Priestley | |
| Alma Mater: | University of Oxford |
| Doctoral Advisor: | David Edwards[1] |
| Thesis Title: | Topics in Ordered Topological Spaces, Including a Representation Theory for Distributive Lattices |
| Thesis Year: | 1970 |
| Workplaces: | University of Oxford |
| Nationality: | British |
| Fields: | Lattice theory, universal algebra, mathematical logic |
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.[2]
Hilary Priestley introduced ordered separable topological spaces; such topological spaces are now usually called Priestley spaces in her honour.[3] The term "Priestley duality" is also used for her application of these spaces in the representation theory of distributive lattices.[4]