1. Pierre Joseph Louis Fatou was a French mathematician and astronomer.
12 Facts About Pierre Fatou
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Pierre Fatou is known for major contributions to several branches of analysis.
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Pierre Fatou's parents were Prosper Ernest Fatou and Louise Eulalie Courbet, both of whom were in the military.
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Pierre Fatou entered the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris in 1898 to study mathematics and graduated in 1901 when he was appointed an intern in the Paris Observatory.
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Pierre Fatou was promoted to assistant astronomer in 1904 and to astronomer in 1928.
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Pierre Fatou was awarded the Becquerel prize in 1918; he was a knight of the Legion of Honour.
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Pierre Fatou was the president of the French mathematical society in 1927.
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Pierre Fatou was in friendly relations with several contemporary French mathematicians, especially, Maurice Rene Frechet and Paul Montel.
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Pierre Fatou's work had very large influence on the development of analysis in the 20th century.
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Pierre Fatou was the first to introduce and study the set which is called now the Julia set.
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In 1926, Pierre Fatou pioneered the study of dynamics of transcendental entire functions, a subject which is intensively developing at this time.
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Pierre Fatou was the first to prove rigorously a theorem on the averaging of a perturbation produced by a periodic force of short period.