Henri Cartan has just passed away at the age of 104.
He was a co-founder of the Bourbaki group, who were the philosophical leaders of the French school of 20th century mathematics, and who had a profound influence worldwide. His father, Elie Cartan, was a giant in the field, working on Lie groups and Differential Geometry.
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