High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Elie Joseph Cartan (9 April 1869 – 6 May 1951) was an influential French mathematician, who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups and their geometric applications. He also made significant contributions to mathematical physics, differential geometry, and group theory. He was the father of another influential mathematician, Henri Cartan. Elie Cartan was born in the village of Dolomieu in Isere a department of France, the son of a blacksmith. He became a student at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris in 1888 and obtained his doctorate in 1894. He subsequently held lecturing positions in Montpellier and Lyon, becoming a professor in Nancy in 1903. He took a lecturing position at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1909, becoming professor there in 1912 until his retirement in 1940. He died in Paris after a long illness.

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