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  • Élie Cartan worked on continuous groups, Lie algebras, differential equations and geometry.

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    Biography

    Élie Cartan's mother was Anne Florentine Cottaz () and his father was Joseph Antoine Cartan () who was a blacksmith. Let us trace these families back one more generation. Anne Cottaz was the daughter of François Cottaz and Françoise Mallen while Joseph Cartan was the son of Benoît Bordel Cartan (who was a miller) and Jeanne Denard. Joseph and Anne Cartan had four children: Jeanne Marie Cartan (); Élie Joseph Cartan, the subject of this biography; Léon Cartan (), who followed his father and joined the family blacksmith business; and Anna Cartan (), who became a teacher of mathematics. Élie lived with his family in a house on Square Champ-de-Mars in Dolomieu. He remembered his childhood spent with the (quoted in [3]):-
    blows of the anvil, which started every morning from dawn. his mother, during those rare minutes when she was free from taking care of the children and the house, was working with a spinning wheel.
    The family were very poor and, as Élie Cartan later said
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    Person: Cartan, Élie Joseph

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    Élie Cartan worked on continuous groups, Lie algebras, differential equations and geometry. His work achieves a synthesis between these areas. He is one of the most important mathematicians of the first half of the 20C.

    Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):

    • It was Élie's exceptional abilities, together with a lot of luck, which made a high quality education possible for him.
    • Dubost was at this time employed as an inspector of primary schools and it was on a visit to the primary school in Dolomieu, in the French Alps, that he discovered the remarkable young Élie.
    • Dubost encouraged Élie to enter the competition for state funds to allow Élie to attend a Lycée.
    • Cartan became a student at the École Normale Supérieure in where he attended courses by the leading mathematicians of the day including Henri Poincaré, Charles Hermite, Jules Tannery, Gaston Darboux, Paul Appell, Émile

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      Élie Cartan

      1 Élie Joseph Cartan

      French mathematician and mathematical physicist;
      Born: April 9th, in Dolomieu (near Chambéry), Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France.
      Died: May 6th, in Paris, France.
      His brother, Louis–a member of the ‘underground’ French Resistance– was beheaded by the Nazis in månad

      Formal studies:

      School inspector Dubost was impressed by Élie namn Cartan’s abilities and obtained state funds that paid for Élie to attend the Lycée in Lyons, completed with ‘distinction in Mathematics’. The state stipend was then extended in order to allow him to study at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

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        Doctoral student in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure in ;

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      Academic Appointments:

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        – Faculty appointment at the University at Montpellier

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        – Lecturer appointment at the University of Lyon

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        – Professor at the University of Nancy

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        – Lecturer at the Sorbonne in Paris

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        – Chair of Differential and Integral Calculus in Paris