Jean Bénabou

Jean Bénabou
Jean Bénabou in Paris, in 2015.
Born1932 (1932)[1]
Rabat, French Protectorate in Morocco, France
Died11 February 2022(2022-02-11) (aged 89–90)
France
NationalityFrench
Alma materUniversity of Paris
RelativesMarcel Bénabou (cousin)[2]
Scientific career
ThesisStructures algebriques dans les categories (1966)
Doctoral advisorCharles Ehresmann

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]

Partial bibliography

  • Bénabou, Jean (1963). "Catégories avec multiplication". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences (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). Cahiers de Topologie et Géométrie Différentielle Catégoriques. 10 (1): 1–126.
  • Bénabou, Jean; Roubaud, Jacques (1970). "Monades et descente". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série 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". Journal of Symbolic Logic. 50 (1): 10–37. doi:10.2307/2273784. JSTOR 2273784. S2CID 18310794.

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Roubaud, Jacques (8 September 2011). "Esquisse d'un portrait de Jean Bénabou, catégoricien". Images des Mathématiques (in French). Retrieved 14 February 2022.
  3. ^ 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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