Adrien Douady

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Adrien Douady

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Why Is Adrien Douady Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Adrien Douady was a French mathematician born in La Tronche, Isère. He was the son of Daniel Douady and Guilhen Douady. Douady was a student of Henri Cartan at the École normale supérieure, and initially worked in homological algebra. His thesis concerned deformations of complex analytic spaces. Subsequently, he became more interested in the work of Pierre Fatou and Gaston Julia and made significant contributions to the fields of analytic geometry and dynamical systems. Together with his former student John H. Hubbard, he launched a new subject, and a new school, studying properties of iterated quadratic complex mappings. They made important mathematical contributions in this field of complex dynamics, including a study of the Mandelbrot set. One of their most fundamental results is that the Mandelbrot set is connected; perhaps most important is their theory of renormalization of maps. The Douady rabbit, a quadratic filled Julia set, is named after him.

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