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Henri Cartan
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- Works
- 8
Top works
- Sur un cas de prolongement analytique pour les fonctions de plusieurs variables complexes
- Nicolas Bourbaki und Die Heutige Mathematik
- Oeuvres - Collected Works II
- Differential Calculus on Normed Spaces
- Seminaire Henri Cartan, Vol. IV
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Key facts
- Born
- Henri Paul Cartan , ( 1904-07-08 ) 8 July 1904, Nancy , Meurthe-et-Moselle , France
- Died
- 13 August 2008 (2008-08-13) (aged 104), Paris, France
- Alma mater
- École Normale Supérieure
- Known for
- Cartan's theorems A and B , Cartan's lemma , Cartan–Eilenberg resolution , Projective module , Steenrod algebra , Weak dimension
- Father
- Élie Cartan
- Relatives
- Anna Cartan (aunt), Pierre Weiss (father-in-law)
- Awards
- Peccot Lectures (1932), Émile Picard Medal (1959), CNRS Gold Medal (1976), Wolf Prize (1980), Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award (1989)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- University of Paris
- Thesis
- Sur les systèmes de fonctions holomorphes à variétés linéaires lacunaires et leurs applications (1928)
- Doctoral advisor
- Paul Montel
- Doctoral students
- Jean-Paul Benzécri , Pierre Cartier , Jean Cerf , Jacques Deny , Adrien Douady , Pierre Dolbeault , Roger Godement , Max Karoubi , Jean-Louis Koszul , Jean-Pierre Ramis , Jean-Pierre Serre , René Thom , B. L. Sharma
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Henri
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Nancy
- Place of death
- Paris
- Father
- Élie Cartan
- Occupation
- researcher
- Educated at
- Lycée Hoche
- Employer
- University of Paris
- Languages spoken
- French
- Doctoral advisor
- Paul Montel
- Doctoral student
- Joséphine Guidy Wandja
- Field of work
- translation
- Image
- Henri Cartan.jpg
- Work location
- Strasbourg
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- member of
- Japan Academy
- date of birth
- 1904-07-08
- date of death
- 2008-08-13
- Commons category
- Henri Cartan
- Erdős number
- 3
- name in native language
- Henri Paul Cartan
- writing language
- French
- archives at
- La contemporaine
- subject has role
- centenarian
- birth name
- Henri Paul Cartan
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Henri Paul Cartan ( French: [kaʁtɑ̃]; 8 July 1904 – 13 August 2008) was a French mathematician who made substantial contributions to algebraic topology.
He was the son of the mathematician Élie Cartan, nephew of mathematician Anna Cartan, oldest brother of composer Jean Cartan [fr; de], physicist Louis Cartan [fr] and mathematician Hélène Cartan [fr], and the son-in-law of physicist Pierre Weiss.
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