Émile Clément Cotton (5 February 1872 – 14 March 1950) was a professor of mathematics at the University of Grenoble.
His PhD thesis studied differential geometry in three dimensions, with the introduction of the Cotton tensor.
[1] He held the professorship from 1904 until his 1942 retirement.
He was the brother of Aimé Cotton.
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