Jean Bénabou (1932 – 11 February 2022) was a Moroccan-born French mathematician, known for his contributions to
category theory
Category theory is a general theory of mathematical structures and their relations that was introduced by Samuel Eilenberg and Saunders Mac Lane in the middle of the 20th century in their foundational work on algebraic topology. Nowadays, cate ...
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He directed the Research Seminar in Category Theory at the
Institut Henri Poincaré
The Henri Poincaré Institute (or IHP for ''Institut Henri Poincaré'') is a mathematics research institute part of Sorbonne University, in association with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). It is located in the 5th arrond ...
and
Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu from 1969 to 2001. Bénabou died on 11 February 2022.
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1932 births
2022 deaths
20th-century French mathematicians
Category theorists
Moroccan emigrants to France
People from Rabat
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