Élie Cartan

Apr 9, 1869 - May 6, 1951

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.
His son Henri Cartan was an influential mathematician working in algebraic topology.
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