CARTAN, HENRI (-PAUL)

born July 8, 1904, Nancy, Fr. French mathematician who made fundamental advances in the theory of analytic functions. Son of the distinguished mathematician lie Cartan, Henri Cartan began his academic career as professor of mathematics at the Lyce Caen (192829). He was appointed deputy professor at the University of Lille in 1929 and two years later became professor of mathematics at the University of Strasbourg. In 1940 he joined the faculty of the University of Paris, where he remained until 1969, and from 1970 to 1975 he taught at Orsay. In addition to his work on analytic functions, Cartan contributed to the theory of sheaves, homological theory, algebraic topology, and potential theory. His major works include Homological Algebra (1956) and Elementary Theory of Analytic Functions of One or Several Complex Variables (1963).