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2 unusual facts about Cartan


Cartan

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

Henri Cartan (1904-2008), French mathematician who worked in algebraic topology, son of the above


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.

Big Bounce

In 2011, Nikodem Popławski showed that a nonsingular Big Bounce appears naturally in the Einstein-Cartan-Sciama-Kibble theory of gravity.

Black-hole cosmology

In the Einstein-Cartan-Sciama-Kibble theory of gravity, however, it forms a regular Einstein-Rosen bridge, or wormhole.

Henri Cartan

Cartan used his influence to help obtain the release of some dissident mathematicians, including Leonid Plyushch and Jose Luis Massera.

Hermine David

Hermine Lionette Cartan David (19 April 1886 in Paris – 1 December 1970 in Bry-sur-Marne) was a French painter and the wife of Jules Pascin, also a painter.


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