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...want tickets for the Athens Olympics, stay away from high-priced Web brokers. Americans can safely buy tickets at Cartan Tours www.cartan.com) an authorized agency of the U.S. Olympic Committee. Some prime events, like the 100-m track finals and the men's gold-medal basketball game, are sold out, but you can still catch the finals for women's volleyball ($126) and for table tennis ($42), among others. If you have friends in France or Britain, let them buy the tickets for you; residents of European Union countries can get seats 20% cheaper from the Athens Organizing Committee www.tickets.athens2004.com...
Saying yesterday that he was "very pleased at being chosen," Brauer received the citation "for his work on the conjectures of Dickson, Cartan, Artin, and Masehke, his introduction of the Brauer group, and his development of the theory of modular representations...
...search for and the formulation of a Unified Field Theory which will encompass all Nature. He has laid promising foundations (TIME, July 15, 1935). Other work on the problem has been done by Britain's Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, German Exile Max Born, France's Elie Cartan. Last week another approach was suggested by Dr. George David Birkhoff of Harvard...
...congress of scholars at Harvard has been an inspiring event. We like to feel the renewed assurance that the ancient regard for knowledge is perpetuated in modern disciples, and we like to believe that we ourself are (as Professor Cartan so nobly phrased it) "passionately attached to the principle of free inquiry." This is the source of our own patriotism, for, with all its beguiling idiocies, America is still freely inquiring. (We get a questionnaire in every mail.) It is certain that in this country, more than in any other, the establishment of a court of wisdom would...
Elie Joseph Cartan, of the University of Paris, Mathematics...