“E. Cartan, Exterior Differential Systems and its Applications, (Translated into English by M. Nadjafikhah)”
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Élie Cartan
Élie Joseph Cartan 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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science · French mathematician (1869–1951) · mathematician · university teacher · physicist · also Élie Cartan, Elie Cartan, Elie-Joseph Cartan, Élie Joseph Cartan, Élie cartan, E. Cartan
Born 9 April 1869 · Died 6 May 1951 · Q274639
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2026· 3 entries
“On the integration of systems of total differential equations”
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“On manifolds with projective connections”
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2025· 1 entry
Nature: Institut Elie Cartan de Lorraine (IECL)
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1956· 1 entry
Published “Homological Algebra (PMS-19)” — cited 548 times.
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1952· 1 entry
“On certain differential expressions and the Pfaff problem”
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1951· 1 entry
Died 1951-05-06.
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1947· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1947).
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1946· 1 entry
Career landmark: president of the French Academy of Sciences (1946–1946).
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1940· 1 entry
And spent the last years of his life teaching mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure for girls
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1938· 1 entry
Participated in the International Committee composed to organise the International Congresses for the Unity of Science
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1937· 1 entry
Awarded Lobachevsky Prize (1937).
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1930· 1 entry
Awarded Leconte Prize (1930).
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1924· 1 entry
Published “Sur les variétés à connexion affine, et la théorie de la relativité généralisée (première partie) (Suite)” in Annales scientifiques de l'École normale supérieure — cited 379 times.
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1923· 1 entry
Published “Sur les variétés à connexion affine et la théorie de la relativité généralisée (première partie)” in Annales scientifiques de l'École normale supérieure — cited 652 times.
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1921· 1 entry
Became a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Learning and in 1937 a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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1920· 1 entry
Awarded Poncelet Prize (1920).
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1913· 1 entry
The spinors, which later played such an important role in quantum mechanics
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1912· 1 entry
Cartan became Professor there, based on the reference he received from Poincaré
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1909· 1 entry
Cartan moved his family to Paris and worked as a lecturer in the Faculty of Sciences in the Sorbonne
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1904· 1 entry
Cartan's first son, Henri Cartan, who later became an influential mathematician, was born; in 1906, another son, Jean Cartan, who became a composer, was born
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1903· 1 entry
While in Lyon, Cartan married Marie-Louise Bianconi (1880–1950); in the same year, Cartan became a professor in the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Nancy
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1894· 1 entry
In the Faculty of Sciences in the Sorbonne
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1892· 1 entry
Lie came to Paris, at the invitation of Darboux and Tannery, and met Cartan for the first time
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1891· 1 entry
Cartan was drafted into the French army, where he served one year and attained the rank of sergeant
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1888· 2 entries
When Wilhelm Killing systematically started to study the group in itself, independent of its possible actions on other manifolds
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Where he attended lectures by Charles Hermite (1822–1901), Jules Tannery (1848–1910), Gaston Darboux (1842–1917), Paul Appell (1855–1930), Émile Picard (1856–1941), Édouard Goursat (1858–1936), and Henri Poincaré (1854–1
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1886· 2 entries
Studied at Lycée Stendhal (1884–1886).
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Moved to the Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris to study sciences for two years; there he met and befriended his classmate Jean-Baptiste Perrin (1870–1942) who later became a famous physicist in France
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1869· 1 entry
Born 1869-04-09.
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