Tan Lei (nonfiction)

Tan Lei

Tan Lei (Chinese: 谭蕾) was a mathematician specializing in complex dynamics and functions of complex numbers. She is most well-known for her contributions to the study of the Mandelbrot set and Julia set.

After gaining her PhD in Mathematics in 1986 at University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, Tan worked as an assistant researcher in Geneva. She then conducted postdoctoral projects at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and University of Bremen until 1989, when she was made a lecturer at Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon in France. Tan held a research position at University of Warwick from 1995 to 1999, before becoming a senior lecturer at Cergy-Pontoise University. She was made professor at University of Angers in 2009.

A conference in Tan's memory was held in Beijing, China, in May 2016.

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against mathematical constants
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Mathematician
• Mathematics

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Adrien Douady (nonfiction) - Doctoral advisor
• Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)
• Mandelbrot set (nonfiction), closely related to the Julia set
• Mathematician (nonfiction)
• Mathematics (nonfiction)

External links:

• Tan Lei @ Wikipedia