Derived category
Categoría derivada
- Date
- 1960 · confidence medium
- Place
- Paris, France
- Credited to
- Alexander Grothendieck y Jean-Louis Verdier
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
Construction in homological algebra, developed by Alexander Grothendieck and formalized in Jean-Louis Verdier's thesis, reorganizing chain complexes of an abelian category to simplify the theory of derived functors.
What it led to
- Formalization of hypercohomology
- Central tool of modern algebraic geometry
- Foundation for topos theory and étale cohomology