nLab Donovan van Osdol

Donovan H. Van Osdol is a mathematician who is Emeritus professor at the University of New Hampshire. He worked with Mike Barr and Jack Duskin, on category theory and homological algebra.

A minimalist Faculty webpage is here

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 cohomology induced from a monad/comonad-pair and early discussion of distributive laws of monads over comonads:

• Donovan van Osdol, Bicohomology Theory, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 183 (1973) 449-476 [jstor:1996479]

See also:

• D. van Osdol, Long exact sequences in the first variable for algebraic cohomology theories, J. Pure Appl. Alg., 23, (1982), 271–309.

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