Jean Bénabou (1932 – 11 February 2022)[3] was a French mathematician, known for his contributions to category theory. He directed the Research Seminar in Category Theory at the Institut Henri Poincaré and Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu from 1969 to 2001.[1]
Jean Bénabou | |
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 Jean Bénabou in Paris, in 2015. | |
| Born | 1932[1] |
| Died | 11 February 2022 (aged 89–90) France |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
| Relatives | Marcel Bénabou (cousin)[2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Structures algebriques dans les categories (1966) |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles Ehresmann |
Partial bibliography edit
- Bénabou, Jean (1963). "Catégories avec multiplication". C. R. Acad. Sci. (in French). 256: 1887–1890.
- Bénabou, Jean (1967). "Introduction to bicategories". Reports of the Midwest Category Seminar. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Vol. 47. Berlin: Springer. pp. 1–77. doi:10.1007/BFb0074299. ISBN 978-3-540-03918-1.
- Bénabou, Jean (1968). "Structures algébriques dans les catégories" (PDF). Cah. Topol. Géom. Différ. Catég. 10 (1): 1–126.
- Bénabou, Jean; Roubaud, Jacques (1970). "Monades et descente". C. R. Acad. Sci. A (in French) (270): 96–98.
- Bénabou, Jean (1973). "Les distributeurs". Séminaires de mathématique pure (in French). 33. Université Catholique de Louvain.
- Bénabou, Jean (1985). "Fibered categories and the foundations of naive category theory". J. Symbolic Logic. 50 (1): 10–37. doi:10.2307/2273784. JSTOR 2273784. S2CID 18310794.
References edit
- ^ a b "Jean Benabou: A (Very) Brief Biographical Sketch and Conspectus of his Mathematical Career". Category Theory Yesterday Today (and Tomorrow?): A Colloquium in Honour of Jean Benabou. Paris: École normale supérieure. 3–4 June 2011.
- ^ Roubaud, Jacques (8 September 2011). "Esquisse d'un portrait de Jean Bénabou, catégoricien". Images des Mathématiques (in French). Retrieved 14 February 2022.
- ^ Coecke, Bob [@coecke] (14 February 2022). "Just learned that Jean Benabou, father of monoidal categories, and many other things, died 3 days ago" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
External links edit
External links edit
- "Mitchell-Bénabou language". ncatlab.org.
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