Tan Lei (nonfiction)
Tan Lei (Chinese: 谭蕾) (18 March 1963 - 1 April 2016) 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.
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Fiction cross-reference
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