Biography:Émile Cotton
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Short description: French mathematician (1872-1950)
Émile Clément Cotton (5 February 1872 – 14 March 1950) was a professor of mathematics at the University of Grenoble. His PhD thesis studied differential geometry in three dimensions, with the introduction of the Cotton tensor.[1] He held the professorship from 1904 until his 1942 retirement.
He was awarded the Legion of Honor.[2]
His brother was Aimé Cotton; their father was a mathematics professor.[3]
Publications
- Cours de mécanique générale. Introduction à l'étude de la mécanique industrielle (1920) [4]
References
- ↑ Cotton, É. (1899). "Sur les variétés à trois dimensions" (in French). Ann. Fac. Sci. Toulouse. II 1 (4): 385–438. doi:10.5802/afst.160. http://www.numdam.org/item/AFST_1899_2_1_4_385_0/.
- ↑ Base de Donnees Leonore website, Émile Cotton
- ↑ Bates, L. F. (1951). "Prof. Aimé Auguste Cotton". Nature 167 (4258): 923. doi:10.1038/167923a0. https://www.nature.com/articles/167923a0.
- ↑ University of Pennsylvania website, Online Books section, Cours de mécanique générale. Introduction à l'étude de la mécanique industrielle
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