Biography:Émile Cotton
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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 the brother of Aimé Cotton.
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/.
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