About Samuel Lattès
Lived 1873 – 1918 (aged 45). Samuel Lattès was a French mathematician and university teacher.
Samuel Lattès (21 February 1873 (Nice) – 5 July 1918) was a French mathematician.
From 1892 to 1895 he studied at the École Normale Superieure. After this he was a teacher in Algiers, Dijon and Nice. After a promotion to Paris in 1906 he moved first to Montpellier in 1908 and then to Besançon, before he took up a professorship at the University of Toulouse in 1911. He died of typhus in 1918.
Today Lattès is best known for his work on complex sets, particularly for examples of rational functions including the Riemann sphere in its Julia set. Today these examples are described as Lattès maps or Lattès examples.
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French mathematician
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Samuel Lattès was born on 21 February 1873 in Nice.
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Samuel Lattès died on 5 July 1918.
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