Cartan, H.

...The concept of spinor, which is important in quantum mechanics, was also introduced by him in 1913, and the concept of fiber bundle, which is considered an essential concept in various fields of modern mathematics, is also due to the concept of connection that he introduced. Nowadays, Cartan is considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians of the last 100 years, along with H. Poincaré and D. Hilbert, but it was only after 1930 that he was recognized as a first-class mathematician due to the extraordinary originality and novelty of his mathematics. His eldest son, Henri C. (1904-), is also a professor of mathematics at the University of Paris. ...

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…量子力学で重要なスピノルの概念も13年に彼が導入したものであり，現代数学のいろいろの分野で不可欠の概念とされているファイバーバンドルも彼の導入した接続の概念に負うものである。現今では，カルタンはH.ポアンカレ，D.ヒルベルトとともに最近100年間における最高の数学者とみなされているが，彼の数学の異常な独創性と斬新性のため，彼が第一級の数学者と認められるようになったのは30年以後である。なお，長男アンリHenri C.(1904‐　)もパリ大学の数学教授。…

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