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Élie Cartan. Élie Joseph Cartan ForMemRS ( French: [kaʁtɑ̃]; 9 April 1869 – 6 May 1951) was an influential French mathematician who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups, differential systems (coordinate-free geometric formulation of PDEs ), and differential geometry. He also made significant contributions to general ...
- 6 May 1951 (aged 82), Paris, France
- 9 April 1869, Dolomieu, Isère, France
May 6, 2012 · Biography. Élie Cartan's mother was Anne Florentine Cottaz (1841-1927) and his father was Joseph Antoine Cartan (1837-1917) who was a blacksmith. Let us trace these families back one more generation. Anne Cottaz was the daughter of François Cottaz and Françoise Mallen while Joseph Cartan was the son of Benoît Bordel Cartan (who was a miller ...
Apr 5, 2024 · Élie-Joseph Cartan (born April 9, 1869, Dolomieu, Fr.—died May 6, 1951, Paris) was a French mathematician who greatly developed the theory of Lie groups and contributed to the theory of subalgebras. In 1894 Cartan became a lecturer at the University of Montpellier, where he studied the structure of continuous groups introduced by the noted ...
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ELIE JOSEPH CARTAN. 1869-1951. ELIE CARTAN is one of the great architects of contemporary mathematics. He. was born on 9 April 1869 and died on 6 May 1951. His father was the blacksmith. in Dolomieu, a village of the Dauphine. Elie was the second of four children, and his youngest sister, Anna, became a teacher of mathematics in a school for girls.
Born on April 9, 1869, Cartan's background was that of a peasant: his father, Joseph, was the village blacksmith in Dolomieu Isére, a town in the French Alps. Joseph and his wife Anne Cottaz Cartan had four children, of which Elie was the second. A talented student, the young Cartan attracted the attention of an inspector of primary schools ...
Élie Joseph Cartan ForMemRS was an influential French mathematician who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups, differential systems , and differential geometry. He also made significant contributions to general relativity and indirectly to quantum mechanics. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century.
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1869-1951. Elie Cartan is one of the great architects of contemporary mathematics. He was born on 9 April 1869 and died on 6 May 1951. His father was the blacksmith in Dolomieu, a village of the Dauphine. Elie was the second of four children, and his youngest sister, Anna, became a teacher of mathematics in a school for girls.
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