Adrien Douady

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Adrien Douady (25 September 1935 – 2 November 2006) was a French mathematician.

He was a student of Henri Cartan, and initially worked in homological algebra. 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 student John H. Hubbard, he launched a new subject, and a new school. The Douady rabbit, a quadratic filled Julia set, is named after him.

He was elected to the Académie des Sciences in 1997.

[edit] External links

• http://picard.ups-tlse.fr/~cheritat/Adrien70/index.php
• Adrien Douady at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• http://www.math.iu-bremen.de/adrien with a guest book to share your memories
• Pictures with Adrien Douady

This article incorporates material from Adrien Douady on PlanetMath, which is licensed under the GFDL.