Fatou, Julia, Montel The Great Prize of Mathematical Sciences of 1918, and Beyond /

How did Pierre Fatou and Gaston Julia create what we now call Complex Dynamics, in the context of the early twentieth century and especially of the First World War? The book is based partly on new, unpublished sources.Who were Pierre Fatou, Gaston Julia, Paul Montel? New biographical information is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Audin, Michèle (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Series:Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 2014
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • I The Great Prize, the framework
  • I.1 The iteration problem in 1915
  • I.2 The protagonists around 1917–1918
  • I.3 The war.- I.4 Iteration, a few definitions and notation
  • I.5 Normal families
  • I.6 Relation to functional equations
  • II The Great Prize of Mathematical
  • II.1 Year 1917
  • II.2 Year 1918
  • III The memoirs
  • III.1 Julia’s memoir
  • III.2 The (three) memoir(s) of Fatou
  • III.3 Comments (in the first person)
  • III.4 To summarise
  • IV After Fatou and Julia
  • IV.1 Stop
  • IV.2 Hausdorff distance (1914) and dimension (1919)
  • IV.3 Irregular points, J-points, O-points (1925–1927)
  • IV.4 The centre problem (1927–1942).-IV.5 Holomorphic dynamics.-V On Pierre Fatou.-V.1 Childhood and youth of Fatou
  • V.2 What do we know of Pierre Fatou?
  • V.3 Continuation of Fatou’s career
  • V.4 Fatou’s thesis
  • V.5 Fatou as a mathematician.-V.6 Fatou as an astronomer
  • V.7 Teaching and candidatures of Fatou
  • V.8 Fatou and other mathematicians
  • V.9 Death of Fatou
  • VI A controversy in 1965
  • VI.1 The protagonists, from 1918 to 1965
  • VI.2 Relations between Julia and Montel, in the 1930’s
  • VI.3 The third centenary of the Institut de France VI.4
  • As a conclusion: O for a biography of Gaston Julia
  • References.-Index.