Samuel Lattès

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Samuel Lattès (born February 21, 1873 in Nice , †  July 5, 1918 ) was a French mathematician . Lattès studied from 1892 to 1895 at the École Normale Superieure . Then he was a teacher in Algiers , Dijon and Nice. After receiving his doctorate in Paris in 1906, he was first in Montpellier from 1908 , then in Besançon , before finally becoming a professor at the University of Toulouse in 1911 . He died of typhus in 1918 .

Today Lattès is best known for his work on complex dynamics , especially for examples of rational functions, the Juliet set of which is the entire Riemann number sphere . Today these are also referred to as Lattès illustrations or Lattès examples .

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  1. For a modern presentation of Lattès' examples and more recent results, see: John Milnor , On Lattès maps . In Dynamics on the Riemann sphere , European Mathematical Society, Zurich, 2006, pp. 9–43