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Apr 09, 1869 Dolomieu, Auvergne Rhône Alpes, France Died on 06 May 1951 (aged 82)
French mathematician
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About Élie Cartan
- Élie Joseph Cartan, ForMemRS (French: [ka?t?~]; 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 relativity and indirectly to quantum mechanics.
- He is widely regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century.His son Henri Cartan was an influential mathematician working in algebraic topology.
