Jean-Louis Loday

Short description: French mathematician (1946–2012)

Jean-Louis Loday (12 January 1946 – 6 June 2012) was a French mathematician who worked on cyclic homology and who introduced Leibniz algebras (sometimes called Loday algebras) and Zinbiel algebras.^[1] He occasionally used the pseudonym Guillaume William Zinbiel, formed by reversing the last name of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

Education and career

Loday studied at Lycée Louis-le-Grand and at École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Strasbourg in 1975 under the supervision of Max Karoubi, with a dissertation titled K-Théorie algébrique et représentations de groupes. He went on to become a senior scientist at CNRS and a member of the Institute for Advanced Mathematical Research (IRMA) at the University of Strasbourg.

Publications

Loday, Jean-Louis (1998), Cyclic homology, Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften, 301 (2nd ed.), Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-63074-6
Loday, Jean-Louis; Pirashvili, Teimuraz (1993). "Universal enveloping algebras of Leibniz algebras and (co)homology". Mathematische Annalen 296 (1): 139–158. doi:10.1007/BF01445099.
Loday, Jean-Louis; Vallette, Bruno (2012), Algebraic Operads, Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften, 346, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-642-30361-6, http://www-irma.u-strasbg.fr/~loday/PAPERS/LodayVallette.pdf, retrieved 2012-06-20
Zinbiel, Guillaume William (2012), "Encyclopedia of types of algebras 2010", in Guo, Li; Bai, Chengming; Loday, Jean-Louis, Operads and universal algebra, Nankai Series in Pure, Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, 9, pp. 217–298, Zinbiel is a pseudonym of Jean-Louis Loday, ISBN 9789814365116, Bibcode: 2011arXiv1101.0267Z, http://www.worldscibooks.com/mathematics/8222.html