MATHEMATICIAN

Élie Cartan

1869 - 1951

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Élie Joseph Cartan (French: [kaʁtɑ̃]; 9 April 1869 – 6 May 1951) was an influential French mathematician who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups, differential systems (coordinate-free geometric formulation of PDEs), and differential geometry. He also made significant contributions to general relativity and indirectly to quantum mechanics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Élie Cartan has received more than 330,124 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Élie Cartan is the 230th most popular mathematician (down from 210th in 2019), the 1,636th most popular biography from France (down from 1,504th in 2019) and the 47th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Élie Cartan ranks 230 out of 1,004. Before him are Maria Reiche, Israel Gelfand, Pierre Varignon, L. E. J. Brouwer, S. R. Ranganathan, and Ahmad ibn Yusuf. After him are Piet Hein, Joseph Petzval, Seymour Papert, Gilles de Roberval, Nikolay Bogolyubov, and Eduard Heine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Élie Cartan ranks 43. Before him are Carl Schuhmann, Vasily Bartold, Gaetano Bresci, Mary Mallon, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, and Richard Abegg. After him are Else Lasker-Schüler, Hovhannes Tumanyan, Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia, Giulio Douhet, Hjalmar Söderberg, and Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din. Among people deceased in 1951, Élie Cartan ranks 36. Before him are Empress Teimei, Sadegh Hedayat, Princess Hélène of Orléans, Kim Chaek, Émile Chartier, and Erich Naumann. After him are Willem Mengelberg, Kijūrō Shidehara, Fritz Thyssen, Robert J. Flaherty, François Georges-Picot, and Ernst von Weizsäcker.

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In France

Among people born in France, Élie Cartan ranks 1,636 out of 6,770. Before him are Jules de Goncourt (1830), Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza (1911), Raymond Loewy (1893), Abbé Pierre (1912), Philippe Soupault (1897), and Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552). After him are Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours (1489), Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808), Remy de Gourmont (1858), Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle (1775), Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723), and Georges Canguilhem (1904).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Élie Cartan ranks 47. Before him are Laurent Schwartz (1915), Étienne-Louis Malus (1775), Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801), Michel Chasles (1793), Henri Cartan (1904), and Pierre Varignon (1654). After him are Gilles de Roberval (1602), Joseph Bertrand (1822), Émile Picard (1856), Édouard Roche (1820), Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), and Oronce Finé (1494).

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