%0 Journal Article
%T Courant Algebroids. A Short History
%A Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach
%J Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry : Methods and Applications
%D 2013
%I National Academy of Science of Ukraine
%X The search for a geometric interpretation of the constrained brackets of Dirac led 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.
%K Courant algebroid
%K Dorfman bracket
%K Lie algebroid
%K Lie bialgebroid
%K generalized geometry
%K Dirac structure
%K Loday algebra
%K Leibniz algebra
%K derived bracket
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2013.014