References for Elie Cartan

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  1. J Dieudonne, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]

Books:

  1. M A Akivis and B Rosenfeld, Elie Cartan (1869-1951) (Providence R.I., 1993).
  2. R Debever (ed.), Elie Cartan-Albert Einstein : letters on absolute parallelism, 1929-1932 (Princeton, 1979).
  3. J H C Whitehead, Elie Cartan, Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society of London 8 (1952).

Articles:

  1. J Dieudonné, Les travaux de Elie Cartan sur les groupes et algèbres de Lie, Elie Cartan, 1869-1951 (hommage de l'Acad. République Socialiste de Roumanie à l'occasion du centenaire de sa naissance) (Bucharest, 1975), 29-31.
  2. A Finzi, Obituary: Elie Cartan (Hebrew), Riveon Lematematika 8 (1954), 76-80.
  3. W V D Hodge, Obituary: Elie Cartan, J. London Math. Soc. 28 (1953), 115-119.
  4. A Jackson, Interview with Henri Cartan [b. 1904], Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 46 (7) (1999), 782-788. (A pdf version)
  5. M Javillier, Notice nécrologique sur Elie Cartan (1869-1951), C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 232 (1951), 1735-1791.
  6. A Lichnerowicz, Elie Cartan, Elie Cartan, 1869-1951 (hommage de l'Acad. République Socialiste de Roumanie à l'occasion du centenaire de sa naissance) (Bucharest, 1975), 21-28.
  7. S-S Chern and C Chevalley, Obituary: Elie Cartan and his mathematical work, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 58 (1952), 217-250.
  8. N Saltykow, La vie et l'oeuvre de Elie Cartan (Serbo-Croat), Bull. Soc. Math. Phys. Serbie 4 (3-4) (1952), 59-64.
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