Émile Cotton

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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[1] 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/.

[2] Base de Donnees Leonore website, Émile Cotton

[3] Bates, L. F. (1951). "Prof. Aimé Auguste Cotton". Nature 167 (4258): 923. doi:10.1038/167923a0. https://www.nature.com/articles/167923a0.

[4] University of Pennsylvania website, Online Books section, Cours de mécanique générale. Introduction à l'étude de la mécanique industrielle

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Émile Cotton

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