diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index be2e08602..4def4cc60 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -353,6 +353,7 @@ Tobias Schmidt
 Olaf Schn\"urer
 Jakob Scholbach
 Rene Schoof
+Hans Schoutens
 Jaakko Seppala
 Michele Serra
 Emre Sertoz
diff --git a/cohomology.tex b/cohomology.tex
index ca7dd8220..cf6586e34 100644
--- a/cohomology.tex
+++ b/cohomology.tex
@@ -2458,7 +2458,7 @@ \section{Refinements and {\v C}ech cohomology}
 \check{\mathcal{C}}^p(\mathcal{U}, \mathcal{F})$
 given by the rule
 $$
-h(\xi)_{i_0 \ldots i_p} =
+h(\alpha)_{i_0 \ldots i_p} =
 \sum\nolimits_{a = 0}^{p}
 (-1)^a
 \alpha_{c(i_0)\ldots c(i_a) c'(i_a) \ldots c'(i_p)}