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Paul Cartan (French: [kaʁtɑ̃]; 8 July 1904 – 13 August 2008) was a French mathematician who made substantial contributions to algebraic topology. He was

the son of the French mathematician Élie Cartan and the brother of composer Jean Cartan. Cartan

studied at the Lycée Hoche in Versailles, then at

the École Normale Supérieure in

Paris, receiving his doctorate in mathematics. He taught at the University of Strasbourg from

November 1931 until the outbreak of the Second World War, after which he held academic positions at a

number of other French universities, spending the bulk of his working life

in Paris. Cartan is known for work in algebraic topology, in

particular on cohomology operations, the

method of "killing homotopy groups", and group cohomology. His seminar in Paris in the years after 1945

covered ground on several complex variables, sheaf theory, spectral sequences and homological algebra, in a

way that deeply influenced Jean-Pierre Serre, Armand Borel, Alexander Grothendieck and Frank Adams, amongst others of the leading lights of the

younger generation. The number of his official students was small, but

includes Joséphine Guidy Wandja (the

first African woman to gain a PhD in mathematics), Adrien Douady, Roger Godement, Max Karoubi, Jean-Louis Koszul, Jean-Pierre Serre and René Thom. Cartan also was a founding member of

the Bourbaki group and

one of its most active participants. His book with Samuel Eilenberg Homological Algebra  was an important text, treating the subject

with a moderate level of abstraction with the help of category theory. Cartan used his influence to help obtain the

release of Plyushch and Jose Luis Massera. For his humanitarian efforts, he received

the Pagels Award from

the New York Academy of Sciences.

The Cartan model in algebra is named

after Cartan. Cartan died on 13 August 2008 at the age of 104. His funeral took

place the following Wednesday on 20 August in Die, Drome

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