nLab Nicolae Popescu

Nicolae Popescu (1937-2010) was a Romanian mathematician with focus on algebra, especially study of rings and modules, abelian categories and localization theory. Cf. also the Gabriel-Popescu theorem.

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Selected writings

On abelian categories with applucations to rings and modules:

• N. Popescu, Abelian categories with applications to rings and modules, London Math. Soc. Monographs 3, Academic Press (1973) [MR0340375]

On category theory:

• Nicolae Popescu, Liliana Popescu: Theory of categories, Sijthoff & Noordhoff International Publishers (1979) [doi:10.1007/978-94-009-9550-5]

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