René Thom
Videos
René Frédéric Thom was a French mathematician, who received the Fields Medal in 1958.
Thom in 1970
Henri Cartan
Videos
Henri Paul Cartan was a French mathematician who made substantial contributions to algebraic topology.
René Thom
…of Paris. His thesis, titled Espaces fibrés en sphères et carrés de Steenrod (Sphere bundles and Steenrod squares), was written under the direction of Henri Cartan. After a fellowship at Princeton University Graduate College (1951–1952), he became Maître de conférences at the Universities of Grenoble (1953–1954…
Henri Cartan in 1968
During the "Cartan celebration", at Orsay in 1975.