Overview

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 The book is based partly on new, unpublished sources.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 given on the little known mathematician that was Pierre Fatou. How did the WW1 injury of Julia  influence mathematical life in France? From the reviews of the French version: ""Audin’s book is … filled with marvelous biographical information and analysis, dealing not just with the men mentioned in the book’s title but a large number of other players, too … [It] addresses itself to scholars for whom the history of mathematics has a particular resonance and especially to mathematicians active, or even with merely an interest, in complex dynamics. … presents it all to the reader in a very appealing form."" (Michael Berg, The Mathematical Association of America, October 2009)

Full Product Details

Author:   Michèle Audin
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   1st Edition. Translation of the French Original Version, Springer 2009.
Volume:   2014
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.592kg
ISBN:  

9783642178535

ISBN 10:   3642178537
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   30 January 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   English

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.

Reviews

From the reviews: Audin draws the portraits, the environment ! and does it with her own views, her feelings, and her passion for mathematics and for the truth. ! Even specialists in the field will find something new in the book, and nonspecialists will have an excellent introduction to modern complex dynamics. ! For many readers, as for myself, the fact that the author is present on every page with a remark, a comment, and sometimes a mockery, will make it more pleasant and easy to read. (Jean-Pierre Kahane, The Mathematical Intelligences, Vol. 33 (3), September, 2011)

From the reviews: ""Audin draws the portraits, the environment ... and does it with her own views, her feelings, and her passion for mathematics and for the truth. ... Even specialists in the field will find something new in the book, and nonspecialists will have an excellent introduction to modern complex dynamics. ... For many readers, as for myself, the fact that the author is present on every page with a remark, a comment, and sometimes a mockery, will make it more pleasant and easy to read."" (Jean-Pierre Kahane, The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 33 (3), September, 2011)

From the reviews: Audin draws the portraits, the environment ... and does it with her own views, her feelings, and her passion for mathematics and for the truth. ... Even specialists in the field will find something new in the book, and nonspecialists will have an excellent introduction to modern complex dynamics. ... For many readers, as for myself, the fact that the author is present on every page with a remark, a comment, and sometimes a mockery, will make it more pleasant and easy to read. (Jean-Pierre Kahane, The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 33 (3), September, 2011)

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