Jean-Louis Verdier
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Jean-Louis Verdier (1935 – 1989) was a French mathematician who invented derived categories and Verdier duality. He was a close collaborator of Alexander Grothendieck, notably contributing to SGA 4 his theory of hypercovers and anticipating the later development of étale homotopy by Michael Artin and Barry Mazur, following a suggestion he attributed to Pierre Cartier. Saul Lubkin's related theory of rigid hypercovers was later taken up by Eric Friedlander in his definition of the etale topological type.
He later worked on the theory of integrable systems.
[edit] References
- Jean-Louis Verdier at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Verdier's 1967 thesis, published belatedly in:
- Verdier, Jean-Louis (1996). "Des Catégories Dérivées des Catégories Abéliennes" (in French). Astérisque 239. Société Mathématique de France, Marseilles.
- Part of it also appears in SGA 4 1/2 as the last chapter, "Catégories dérivées (état 0)".
- The Verdier Memorial Conference on Integrable Systems: Actes du Colloque International de Luminy (1991) (Progress in Mathematics) edited by V. Babelon, P. Cartier, Y. Kosmann-Schwarzbach
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