nLab Pierre Cartier

Pierre Cartier (1932-2024) was a French mathematician of wide interests (including also mathematical physics), ex-member of Bourbaki.

• Wikipedia page,

• homepage at l’IHES

Selected writings

• A mad day’s work: from Grothendieck to Connes and Kontsevich The evolution of concepts of space and symmetry, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 389-408, pdf

On Hopf algebras:

• Pierre Cartier, A primer on Hopf algebras, Frontiers in number theory, physics, and geometry II, 537–615, preprint IHÉS 2006-40, 81p (doi:10.1007/978-3-540-30308-4_12, pdf, pdf, pdf)

On path integrals such as in quantum physics:

• Pierre Cartier, Cécile DeWitt-Morette, Functional integration: action and symmetries, Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics (2006) [ISBN:9780521143578]