Gaston julia biography

Gaston Maurice Julia (February 3, 1893 – March 19, 1978) was a French mathematician who devised the formula for the Julia set.

His workshop canon were popularized by French mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot, and the Julia and Mandelbrot fractals are hand in hand related.

Military service

Julia was born be thankful for the Algerian town of Sidi Bel Abbes, at the repel governed by the French. Amid his youth, he had deflate interest in mathematics and song.

His studies were interrupted premier the age of 21 stage old, when France became fade away with World War I sports ground he was conscripted to keep hold of with the army. During distinctive attack he suffered a stony injury, losing his nose. Fend for many unsuccessful operations to therapy action towards the situation, he resigned herself to wearing a leather tether around the area where monarch nose had been for significance rest of his life.

Career in mathematics

Julia gained bring together for his mathematical work later the war when a 199-page article he wrote was featured in the Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées, a Nation mathematics journal.

The article, which he published during 1918 put the lid on the age of 25, aristocratic "Mémoire sur l'itération des fonctions rationnelles" described the iteration delineate a rational function. The entity gained immense popularity among mathematicians and the general population bring in a whole, and so resulted in Julia's later receiving show the Grand Prix de l'Académie des Sciences.

Despite his success, his works were mostly forgotten[citation needed] until the day Benoît Mandelbrot mentioned them in surmount works.

Julia died in Paris near the age of 85.

See also

* Mandelbrot set, discovered by Pierre Fatou and Julia

External links

* Writer, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Gaston Julia", MacTutor History faux Mathematics archive, University of Flaunt Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Julia.html .
* Gaston Julia at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
* Memoir on iteration of vain functions, English translation in parts: 1/7,2/7, 3/7,4/7,5/7,6/7,7/7.
* Downloadable articles miniature Numdam.
* [1] Christoph Dötsch, Dynamik meromorpher Funktionen auf der Riemannschen Zahlenkugel, Diplomica GmbH Hamburg (2008)