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Élie Cartan (1869–1951)

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M. A. Akivis and Boris Rosenfeld. Translated by V. V. Goldberg

Publication: Translations of Mathematical Monographs
Publication Year: 1993; Volume 123
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-5355-9 (print); 978-1-4704-1620-1 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/mmono/123
MathSciNet review: MR1222194
MSC: Primary 01A70; Secondary 01A55, 01A60, 17-03, 22-03, 53-03

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Table of Contents

Front/Back Matter

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Chapters

• Chapter 1. The life and the work of E. Cartan
• Chapter 2. Lie groups and algebras
• Chapter 3. Projective spaces and projective metrics
• Chapter 4. Lie pseudogroups and Pfaffian equations
• Chapter 5. The method of moving frames and differential geometry
• Chapter 6. Riemannian manifolds. Symmetric spaces
• Chapter 7. Generalized spaces
• Conclusion
• Dates of Cartan’s life and activities
• List of publications of Elie Cartan

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