{{Short description|French mathematician}} '''Bernadette Perrin-Riou''' (born 1 August 1955) is a French number theorist.

==Early life== Perrin-Riou was born on 1 August 1955 in Les Vans, Ardèche, France. Her parents had both had a scientific education;<ref name=RLSPrize>{{cite journal |journal=Notices of the AMS |url=https://www.ams.org/notices/199904/comm-satter-prz.pdf |pages=467–468 |volume=46 |issue=4 |date=April 1999 |title=1999 Satter Prize |author=<!-- No author given --> }}</ref> her mother and father were a physicist and chemist, respectively. She was brought up, along with her sisters, in Neuilly-sur-Seine.<ref name=NWiM>{{cite book |title=Notable Women in Mathematics |editor=Charlene Morrow and Teri Peri |publisher=Greenwood Press |date=1998 |pages=161–164}}</ref><ref name=MacTutor>{{cite web |url=https://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Perrin-Riou.html |website=MacTutor History of Mathematics |title=Bernadette Perrin-Riou |date=February 2010 |access-date=8 October 2019}}</ref>

==Education== She entered the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Jeunes Filles in 1974, completing her undergraduate work in 1977. She then took a research assistant position at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris.<ref name=MacTutor/> She received an advanced degree from University of Paris-Sud in 1979, working with Georges Poitou;<ref name=NWiM/> she then obtained a doctoral degree from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1983. Her thesis advisor was John H. Coates, and her thesis was entitled "{{lang|fr|Arithmetique des courbes elliptiques et théorie d'Iwasawa}}" ("Arithmetic of elliptic curves and Iwasawa theory").<ref name=MacTutor/>

==Career== She became {{lang|fr|maître de conferences}} at UPMC in 1983, and was then invited to spend a year as a visiting professor at Harvard University; she subsequently became a professor at the same university.<ref name=MacTutor/>

In 1994 she moved to a position at University of Paris-Sud in Orsay<ref name=NWiM/> In the same year, she was invited to give an address at the International Congress of Mathematicians, which was held in Zürich,<ref name=MacTutor/> which she gave on "{{lang|fr|Fonctions}} L p-{{lang|fr|adiques}}" ("''p''-adic ''L''-functions").<ref>{{cite conference |url=https://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/ICM/Proceedings/ICM1994.1/ICM1994.1.ocr.pdf |conference=International Congress of Mathematicians |author=Bernadette Perrin-Riou |title=Fonctions ''L'' ''p''-adiques |volume=I |pages=400–410 |language=French |trans-title=''p''-adic ''L''-functions |year=1994}}</ref>

==Research== Perrin-Riou's research is in number theory, concentrating on ''p''-adic ''L''-functions and Iwasawa theory.<ref name=RLSPrize/>

==Awards== She was awarded the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics prize in 1999, a prize established in 1990 for women in maths.<ref name=RLSPrize/>

==References== {{reflist}} {{Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics recipients}}

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