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. 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, vol. 301 (2nd ed.), Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-63074-6, MR 1600246 Loday, Jean-Louis & Pirashvili, Teimuraz (1993). "Universal enveloping algebras of Leibniz algebras and (co)homology". Mathematische Annalen. 296 (1): 139–158. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.298.1142. doi:10.1007/BF01445099. S2CID 16865683. {{cite journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |citeseerx= (help) Loday, Jean-Louis; Vallette, Bruno (2012), Algebraic Operads (PDF), Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol. 346, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-642-30361-6, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-23, retrieved 2012-06-20 Zinbiel, Guillaume William (2012), "Encyclopedia of types of algebras 2010", in Guo, Li; Bai, Chengming; Loday, Jean-Louis (eds.), Operads and universal algebra, Nankai Series in Pure, Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, vol. 9, pp. 217–298, arXiv:1101.0267, Bibcode:2011arXiv1101.0267Z, ISBN 9789814365116, Zinbiel is a pseudonym of Jean-Louis Loday
See also Associahedron Blakers–Massey theorem Loday functor
References
Obituary Home page Archived 2017-07-04 at the Wayback Machine Jean-Louis Loday at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
External links Loday's biography of Guillaume William Zinbiel Archived 2011-08-23 at the Wayback Machine