nLab Pierre Grillet

Pierre Grillet is an Eleritus Professor at Tulane university. He has worked mostly on semigroup theory, but also made important contributions to both cohomology theory and category theory.

• Mathematics Genealogy page

• Tribute by Jonathan Leech for Pierre Grillet’s 75 birthday

Selected writings

Introducing Barr-exact categories and regular categories:

• Michael Barr, Pierre Grillet, Donovan van Osdol, Exact Categories and Categories of Sheaves, Lec. Notes in Math. 236, Springer 1971, (doi:10.1007/BFb0058579)

On semigroups:

• Pierre Grillet, Semigroups: An Introduction to the Structure Theory - Chapman & Hall/CRC Pure and Applied Mathematics 193

Showing that ‘triple’ (Beck) cohomology for commutative semigroups can be described in concrete terms and related to commutative group coextensions:

• Pierre Grillet, Commutative semigroup cohomology, Communications in Algebra, Vol. 23, Volume 23, 1995 - Issue 10.

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