nLab Jean-Marc Cordier

Jean-Marc Cordier (1946–2014) was a French mathematician, working at LAMFA, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens.

Cordier obtained his doctorat d’état es’ Sciences from Paris 7 in 1987. His doctoral research was directed by Michel Zisman. His published work was centred on problems of homotopy coherence, homotopy limits and their application to Steenrod-Sitnikov homology, and strong shape theory. He is best known for his work (1980) on the homotopy coherent nerve of simplicially enriched categories.

• Andrée Ehresmann: Parcours d’un topologue-catégorien: Jean-Marc Cordier (1946–2014), Cahiers LVI-1 (2015) [pdf]

Selected writings

On profunctors with application to shape theory:

• Dominique Bourn, Jean-Marc Cordier, Distributeurs et théorie de la forme, Cah. Top. Géom. Diff. Cat. 21 no.2 (1980) pp.161-189. (numdam:CTGDC_1980__21_2_161_0, pdf)

On homotopy coherent diagrams and their homotopy limits/homotopy colimits

• J.-M. Cordier, Sur la notion de diagramme homotopiquement cohérent, Proc. 3éme Colloque sur les Catégories, Amiens (1980), Cah. Top. Géom. Diff., 23,(1982) 93 -112.

• J.-M. Cordier, Sur les limites homotopiques de diagrammes homotopiquement cohérents, Comp. Math., 62 (1987) 367-388.

• J.-M. Cordier, Homologie de Steenrod-Sitnikov et limite homotopique algèbrique, manuscripta math 59 (1987) 35-52.

together with several other joint papers with Dominique Bourn and Tim Porter.

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