Died 1978-03-19.
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Gaston Maurice Julia was a French mathematician who devised the formula for the Julia set. His works were popularized by Benoit Mandelbrot; the Julia and Mandelbrot fractals are closely related. He founded, independently with Pierre Fatou, the modern theory of holomorphic dynamics.
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science · French mathematician (1893–1978) · mathematician · university teacher · also Gaston Julia, Gaston Maurice Julia, Julia
Born 3 February 1893 · Died 19 March 1978 · Q323238
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Died 1978-03-19.
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Awarded Commander of the French Order of Academic Palms (1959).
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Awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (1950).
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Career landmark: president of the French Academy of Sciences (1950–1950).
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Leçons sur la représentation conforme des aires multiplement connexes, Gauthier-Villars 1934
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Awarded Petit d'Ormoy, Carriere, Thebault Award (1931).
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Awarded Poncelet Prize (1928).
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Awarded Prix Francoeur (1926).
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Awarded Cours Peccot (1919).
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Awarded Grand prix des sciences mathématiques (1918).
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When his 199-page Mémoire sur l'itération des fonctions rationnelles ("Memoir on the Iteration of Rational Functions") was featured in the Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées
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Awarded Bordin Prize (1917).
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Studied at Science Faculty of Paris (1916–1917).
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1915).
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Studied at École Normale Supérieure (1911–1914).
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Studied at Lycée Janson-de-Sailly (1910–1911).
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Born 1893-02-03.
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