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Pierre Fatou

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Pierre Joseph Louis Fatou was a French mathematician and astronomer, born on 28 February 1878 and died on 9 August 1929. He is known for major contributions to several branches of analysis, the part of mathematics concerned with limits, integration and functions. Two ideas carry his name: the Fatou lemma, an inequality relating the integral of a limit inferior of functions to the limit inferior of their integrals, and the Fatou set, which arises in the study of the iteration of complex functions.

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1878 1
Death Year
1929 1
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Male 1
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    He is known for major contributions to several branches of anal
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    was a French mathematician
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    several branches of analysis
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In mathematics, Fatou's lemma establishes an inequality relating the Lebesgue integral of the limit inferior of a sequence of functions to the
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