Henri Cartan

French mathematician.

Born July 8th, 1904 in Nancy. [ref]

Died August 13th, 2008 at 104 years old in Paris. [ref]

Occupations
mathematician, university teacher
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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel