Henri Cartan

Henri Paul Cartan

Born: 8 July 1904 in Nancy, France
Died: 

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Henri Cartan is the son of Elie Cartan. Henri taught at many universities including Lycée Caen (1928-29), Lille (1929-31), Strasbourg, Paris (1940-69) and Orsay (1970-1975).

Henri worked on analytic functions, the theory of sheaves, homological theory, algebraic topology and potential theory. Along with others, such as Weil and Dieudonné, Henri Cartan wrote under the name Bourbaki. Bourbaki's Éléments de mathématique contains more than 30 volumes and aims to present mathematics so as to illustrate the axiomatic structure of modern mathematics.

He published important books including Homological Algebra (1956) and Elementary Theory of Analytic Functions of One or Several Complex Variables (1963).

References:

  1. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica 
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