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Élie Joseph Cartan (9 April1869 – 6 May1951) was an influential French mathematician, who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups and their geometric applications. He also made significant contributions to mathematical physics, differential geometry, and group theory.
He was the father of another influential mathematician, Henri Cartan.
Life
Élie Cartan was born in the village of Dolomieu in Isère, the son of a blacksmith.
He became a student at the École Normale Superieure in Paris in 1888 and obtained his doctorate in 1894.
Elie cartan biography definition
He subsequently held lecturing positions in Montpellier and Lyon, becoming a professor in Nancy in 1903. He took a lecturing position at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1909, becoming professor there in 1912 until his retirement in 1940.
He died in Paris after a long illness. He was the father of the mathematician Henri Cartan.
Work
By his own account, in his Notice sur les travaux scientifiques, the main theme of his works (numbering 186 and p