Jean Bénabou
Jean Bénabou (1932 – 11 February 2022) was a Moroccan-born French mathematician, known for his contributions to category theory.
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 |
He directed the Research Seminar in Category Theory at the Institut Henri Poincaré and Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu from 1969 to 2001.[1] Bénabou died on 11 February 2022.[3]
Partial bibliography
- 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). Université Catholique de Louvain. 33.
- 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.
See also
References
- "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.
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