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Gaston Julia

1893 - 1978

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Gaston Maurice Julia (3 February 1893 – 19 March 1978) was a French mathematician who devised the formula for the Julia set. His works were popularized by Benoit Mandelbrot; the Julia and Mandelbrot fractals are closely related. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaston Julia has received more than 198,336 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Gaston Julia is the 341st most popular mathematician (down from 319th in 2019), the 66th most popular biography from Algeria (down from 60th in 2019) and the most popular Algerian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Gaston Julia ranks 341 out of 1,004. Before him are Nicholas Mercator, Sergei Novikov, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin, Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi, and Frank P. Ramsey. After him are Gemma Frisius, Johann Radon, Zhu Shijie, Peter Barlow, Karl Menger, and Jean Dieudonné.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Gaston Julia ranks 97. Before him are Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa, Clas Thunberg, Gillis Grafström, Merian C. Cooper, Edsel Ford, and Raymond Dart. After him are Nestor Lakoba, Israel Joshua Singer, Mikheil Gelovani, Luis Otero, Haykanoush Danielyan, and Rahul Sankrityayan. Among people deceased in 1978, Gaston Julia ranks 78. Before him are Misao Tamai, Diana Budisavljević, Samuel Goudsmit, Karl Lennart Oesch, Salvador de Madariaga, and Felicia Montealegre Bernstein. After him are Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia, Luigi Allemandi, Gunnar Nilsson, Pancho Vladigerov, Armin T. Wegner, and Gabriel Ramanantsoa.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Gaston Julia ranks 66 out of 213. Before him are Isaac Alfasi (1013), Al-Busiri (1213), Tony Gatlif (1948), Paul Masson (1876), Djamila Bouhired (1935), and Ali Kafi (1928). After him are Lakhdar Brahimi (1934), Roger Hanin (1925), Mouloud Feraoun (1913), Sidi Boushaki (1394), Rabah Bitat (1925), and Françoise Fabian (1933).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Algeria

Among mathematicians born in Algeria, Gaston Julia ranks 1. 

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