Gaston Julia, Algerian-French mathematician and academic (died 1978)

Gaston Julia

French mathematician (1893–1978)

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…