Jean Giraud (mathematician)

Jean Giraud
Born(1936-02-02)2 February 1936
Died28 March 2007(2007-03-28) (aged 71)
NationalityFrench
Alma materUniversity of Paris
Known forGiraud subcategory
Giraud's axioms
Gerbe
Sieve
Stacks
Twisted sheaf
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Doctoral advisorAlexander Grothendieck

Jean Giraud (French: [ʒiʁo]; 2 February 1936 – 27 or 28 March 2007)[1][2] was a French mathematician, a student of Alexander Grothendieck.[3] His research focused on non-abelian cohomology and the theory of topoi. In particular, he authored the book Cohomologie non-abélienne (Springer, 1971) and proved the theorem that bears his name, which gives a characterization of a Grothendieck topos.[4]

From 1969 to 1989, he was a professor at École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud.[1]

From 1993 to 1994, he was deputy director for research of École normale supérieure de Lyon, where he was made interim director in 1994 and director from 1995 to 2000.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Giraud, Jean (1936–2007)". BnF catalogue général. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 2013-09-13.
  2. ^ a b "Un dernier hommage à Jean Giraud" Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Philippe Gillet, ENS Info 70, April 2007.
  3. ^ Jean Giraud at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ "Giraud's theorem". nlab. 13 November 2021.


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