Jean Giraud (mathematician)
Jean Giraud ( 1936 - March 28, 2007 ) was a French mathematician.
Giraud received his doctorate in 1966 under Alexander Grothendieck at the University of Paris (Cohomologie non abélienne de degré 2) . He later taught at the École normal supérieure de Lyon , of which he was director from 1995 to 2000.
Among other things, he dealt with category theory (he gave axioms for Grothendieck's topos theory and further developed Grothendieck's theory of stacks ), later mainly with the resolution of singularities in complex and algebraic geometry.
Giraud was on the Council of Société Mathématique de France and was jointly responsible for founding her magazine Asterisque. He was president of the French section of the International Commission on Mathematics Didactics (CIEM). In 1970 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice ( Utilisation des categories en geometry algebrique ).
Fonts
- Méthode de la descente, Mémoires de la Société Mathématique de France, 1964
- Cohomologie non abélienne, Springer 1971
- with Grothendieck, Steven Kleiman , Michel Raynaud : Dix exposés sur la cohomologie des schémas, North Holland, Masson 1968
Web links
- Obituary at the ENS Lyon
- Interview with Giraud zu Grothendieck, Le Journal de maths 1994 (French, PDF, 99 KiB)
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| SURNAME | Giraud, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1936 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 2007 |