Abstract
The search for a geometric interpretation of the constrained brackets of Diracled to the definition of the Courant bracket. The search for the right notion of a "double" for Lie bialgebroids led to the definition of Courant algebroids. We recount the emergence of these concepts.
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Kosmann-Schwarzbach, Y. (2013). Courant Algebroids. A short history. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA), 9. https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2013.014
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