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2 unusual facts about Élie Cartan


Cartan

Élie Cartan (1869–1951), French mathematician who worked with Lie groups

Élie Cartan

By his own account, in his Notice sur les travaux scientifiques, the main theme of his works (numbering 186 and published throughout the period 1893–1947) was the theory of Lie groups.


De Donder–Weyl theory

The work of De Donder in contrast started from the theory of integral invariants of Élie Cartan.


see also

Abhay Ashtekar

Magnon and A. Ashtekar, Translation from French of Élie Cartan's work, "Sur les Varietes a Connexion Affine et la Relativite Generale" with a Commentary and Foreword by A. Trautman, Bibliopolis, Naples, 1986, 199 pages.