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Élie Cartan

1869 - 1951

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Élie Joseph Cartan (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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Élie Cartan is the 215th most popular mathematician (up from 230th in 2019), the 1,343rd most popular biography from France (up from 1,637th in 2019) and the 44th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Élie Cartan ranks 215 out of 1,004. Before him are Henry Briggs, Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov, Paul Guldin, Robert Grosseteste, Piet Hein, and Peter Tait. After him are Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, Pierre Bouguer, Thomas Abbt, Hermann Schwarz, Robert Aumann, and Pedro Nunes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Élie Cartan ranks 39. Before him are Kasturba Gandhi, Prince George of Greece and Denmark, Francisco Largo Caballero, Óscar Carmona, Martin Andersen Nexø, and Henri Désiré Landru. After him are Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Carl Schuhmann, Max Hoffmann, Gaetano Bresci, Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta, and Else Lasker-Schüler. Among people deceased in 1951, Élie Cartan ranks 31. Before him are Harald Bohr, Óscar Carmona, Paul Blobel, Kim Chaek, Soh Jaipil, and Ivanoe Bonomi. After him are William Randolph Hearst, Princess Milica of Montenegro, Choudhry Rahmat Ali, Robert J. Flaherty, Adam Stefan Sapieha, and Andrei Platonov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Élie Cartan ranks 1,343 out of 6,770. Before him are Odo the Great (650), Georges Duby (1919), James Tissot (1836), Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (1543), Michel Butor (1926), and Thomas, Count of Savoy (1178). After him are Lazare Hoche (1768), Jean-Claude Killy (1943), Charles Leclerc (1772), Theobald II of Navarre (1239), Pierre Bouguer (1698), and Michel Adanson (1727).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Élie Cartan ranks 44. Before him are Édouard Lucas (1842), Jean Gaston Darboux (1842), Étienne-Louis Malus (1775), Camille Jordan (1838), René Thom (1923), and André Weil (1906). After him are Pierre Bouguer (1698), Laurent Schwartz (1915), Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801), Pierre Varignon (1654), Michel Chasles (1793), and Henri Cartan (1904).

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