derived category

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derived category

Summary

derived category ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (100 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • derived category is credited with the discovery of Alexander Grothendieck[2].
  • derived category is credited with the discovery of Jean-Louis Verdier[3].
  • derived category's subclass of is recorded as category[4].
  • +1960-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of derived category[5].
  • derived category's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03wtg4[6].
  • derived category's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://mathoverflow.net/tags/derived-categories[7].
  • derived category's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://math.stackexchange.com/tags/derived-categories[8].
  • derived category's studied by is recorded as homological algebra[9].
  • derived category's nLab ID is recorded as derived category[10].
  • derived category's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[11].
  • derived category's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 109593458[12].
  • derived category's Encyclopedia of Mathematics article ID is recorded as Derived_category[13].
  • derived category's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C109593458[14].

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Works and Contributions

Credited discoveries include Alexander Grothendieck[2], a mathematician[15], 1928–2014[16], of France[17], awarded the Fields medal[18], specialised in algebraic geometry[19] and Jean-Louis Verdier[3], a mathematician[20], 1935–1989[21], of France[22], specialised in mathematics[23].

Why It Matters

derived category ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (100 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Catégories dérivées et dualité, travaux de J.-L. Verdier. wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [15] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [18] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [19] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [20] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [23] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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