Henri Cartan, 104, who was known as one of the world’s foremost mathematicians of the last half of the 20th century, died Aug. 13 in Paris.
Cartan was acclaimed for his research in pure mathematics, including algebra, topology and the analytic functions of complex variables.
At least two of his pupils won Nobel prizes, one in economics and one in physics. Two others received the Fields Medal, which is regarded as the mathematics equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
In 1980, Cartan received the Wolf Prize, also one of the highest honors in mathematics.
Cartan was born in Nancy, France, on July 8, 1904. His father, Elie Cartan, was an equally renowned mathematician.
Buddy Harman, 79, one of Nashville’s most-recorded drummers, died Thursday of congestive heart failure.
Harman played drums on more than 18,000 recordings, including Roy Orbison’s “Pretty Woman,” Patsy Cline’s “Crazy,” Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire,” Tammy Wynette’s “Stand By Your Man” and Elvis Presley’s “Little Sister.” He was an early staff drummer on the Grand Ole Opry.
WSM air personality and country music historian Eddie Stubbs called Harman the father of modern country drumming.
Leopoldo Serran, 66, the Brazilian screenwriter behind such 1970s art-house hits as “Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands,” and “Bye Bye Brazil,” died Wednesday of liver cancer, the Ipanema Hospital said.
A native of Rio de Janeiro, he got his start in 1963 by adapting Joao Felicio dos Santos’ novel “Ganga Zumba,” considered a classic of Brazil’s Cinema Novo movement.
Serran also co-wrote the screenplay for the 1976 feature “Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands,” which sold nearly 12 million tickets, making it Brazil’s biggest box-office success ever.
Serran also wrote the 1979 feature “Bye Bye Brazil,” one of the few Brazilian films to make a splash abroad in the 1970s.
