Jean Giraud (mathematician)

Jean Giraud (* 1936, † March 28, 2007 ) was a French mathematician.

Giraud in 1966 with Alexander Grothendieck his doctorate at the University of Paris ( cohomology non abélienne de degré 2). He later taught at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, whose director he was from 1995 to 2000.

It addressed, among others, category theory ( he gave axioms for topos theory of Grothendieck and developed Grothendieck's theory of stacks on), later especially with the resolution of singularities in complex and algebraic geometry.

Giraud was in the Council of the Société Mathématique de France and responsible for the founding of its magazine astérisque. He was president of the French section of the International Commission on Mathematics Education ( CIEM ). In 1970 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice ( Utilisation of categories geometry algébrique s ).

Writings

• Méthode de la descente, Mémoires de la Société Mathématique de France, 1964
• Cohomology non abélienne, Springer 1971
• With Grothendieck, Steven Kleiman, Michel Raynaud Dix exposés sur la cohomology of schémas, North Holland, Masson 1968