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Pierre Fatou

1878 - 1929

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Pierre Joseph Louis Fatou (28 February 1878 – 9 August 1929) was a French mathematician and astronomer. He is known for major contributions to several branches of analysis. The Fatou lemma and the Fatou set are named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Fatou is the 598th most popular mathematician (down from 547th in 2019), the 3,642nd most popular biography from France (down from 3,555th in 2019) and the 88th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Pierre Fatou ranks 598 out of 1,004. Before him are Chen Jingrun, Henry Dudeney, Otto E. Neugebauer, Jean-Marie Duhamel, Giacomo F. Maraldi, and Jai Singh II. After him are Sydney Chapman, Arthur Moritz Schoenflies, Carl Adam Petri, Jacques Herbrand, Saunders Mac Lane, and Boris Delaunay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Pierre Fatou ranks 151. Before him are Charles Dvorak, Harriet Bosse, Ernst Hoppenberg, Gyula Krúdy, Inigo Campioni, and Takeo Arishima. After him are Joe Ruddy, Oton Župančič, Wander Johannes de Haas, Paul Renner, Chen Jiongming, and Walther Katzenstein. Among people deceased in 1929, Pierre Fatou ranks 88. Before him are Gustave Schlumberger, Wilhelm von Bode, Cornelis Lely, Lilli Lehmann, Gunnar Heiberg, and Joseph Valentin Boussinesq. After him are Ernest Mason Satow, Paul Leni, Ray Lankester, Amandus Adamson, Walther Katzenstein, and Otto Binswanger.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Fatou ranks 3,642 out of 6,770. Before him are Henri Sauguet (1901), Philippe Gaubert (1879), Patachou (1918), Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1852), Geoffrey II, Count of Gâtinais (1000), and Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux (1767). After him are Nicolas Mignard (1606), Antoine Risso (1777), Ferdinand Brunetière (1849), Jean-Baptiste Du Halde (1674), Charles Dancla (1817), and Christian Marin (1929).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Pierre Fatou ranks 88. Before him are Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger (1790), Jean-Étienne Montucla (1725), Johannes de Muris (1290), Jacques Pelletier du Mans (1517), Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842), and Jean-Marie Duhamel (1797). After him are Jacques Herbrand (1908), Marc-Antoine Parseval (1755), René de Saussure (1868), Serge Lang (1927), Jean Frédéric Frenet (1816), and Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1957).

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