Henri Cartan, 104, who was known as one of the foremost mathematicians of the last half of the 20th century, died Aug. 13 in Paris. No cause of death was reported. Almost all of Dr. Cartan's career ...

Cartan: his Homological Algebra, published in 1956, remains a standard text Henri Cartan , who died on August 13 aged 104, inherited the mathematical genius of his father, Elie Cartan, and made ...

In the 1930s, a group of young French mathematicians led an uprising that revolutionized mathematics. France had lost most of a generation in the First World War, so the emerging hotshots in ...

Henri Cartan, who has died aged 104, was one of the world's most distinguished mathematicians, his life's work conducted at the frontiers of pure mathematics, especially analytic functions and ...