Tan Lei
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University of Paris-Sud, Orsay (MA)
University of Paris-Sud, Orsay (PhD)
Tan Lei 谭蕾 | |
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 Tan Lei in Oberwolfach, 2008 | |
| Born | 18 March 1963 |
| Died | 1 April 2016 (aged 53) |
| Education | Wuhan University (BA) University of Paris-Sud, Orsay (MA) University of Paris-Sud, Orsay (PhD) |
| Spouse | Hans Henrik Rugh |
| Children | 2 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Thesis | Accouplements des polynômes quadratiques complexes (1986) |
| Doctoral advisor | Adrien Douady |
| Website | www |
Tan Lei (Chinese: 谭蕾; 18 March 1963 – 1 April 2016) was a mathematician specialising in complex dynamics and functions of complex numbers. She is most well-known for her contributions to the study of the Mandelbrot set and Julia set.[1]
After gaining her PhD in Mathematics in 1986 at University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, Tan worked as an assistant researcher in Geneva. She then conducted postdoctoral projects at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and University of Bremen until 1989, when she was made a lecturer at Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon in France. Tan held a research position at University of Warwick from 1995 to 1999, before becoming a senior lecturer at Cergy-Pontoise University. She was made professor at University of Angers in 2009.[2]
Mathematical work
Tan obtained important results about the Julia and Mandelbrot sets, in particular investigating their fractality and the similarities between the two.[pub 1] For example she showed that at the Misiurewicz points these sets are asymptotically similar through scaling and rotation.[pub 2] She constructed examples of polynomials whose Julia sets are homeomorphic to the Sierpiński carpet[pub 3] and which are disconnected.[pub 4] She contributed to other areas of complex dynamics.[pub 5][pub 6] She also wrote some surveys and popularisation work around her research topics.[pub 7][pub 8]
