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How did Pierre Fatou and Gaston Julia create what we now call Complex Dynamics, in the context of the early twentieth century and especially of the First World War? The book is based partly on new, unpublished sources.Who were Pierre Fatou, Gaston Julia, Paul Montel? New biographical information is given on the little known mathematician that was Pierre Fatou. How did the serious WW1 injury of Julia influence mathematical life in France? From the reviews of the French edition: "Audin’s book is indeed filled with marvelous biographical information and analysis, dealing not just with the men mentioned in the book’s title but a large number of other players, too … . the book under review addresses itself to scholars for whom the history of mathematics has a particular resonance and especially to mathematicians active, or even with merely an interest in, complex dynamics. … presents it all to the reader in a very appealing form." (Michael Berg, The Mathematical Association of America, October 2009).

Mathematics --- Mathematicians --- Iterative methods (Mathematics) --- Mappings (Mathematics) --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Mathematics - General --- History --- Awards --- Awards. --- Julia, Gaston, --- Fatou, Pierre. --- Montel, Paul, --- Montel, Paul Antonin, --- Julia, Gaston Maurice, --- Mathematics. --- Dynamics. --- Ergodic theory. --- History. --- History of Mathematical Sciences. --- Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory. --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Ergodic transformations --- Continuous groups --- Mathematical physics --- Measure theory --- Transformations (Mathematics) --- Dynamical systems --- Kinetics --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Force and energy --- Mechanics --- Physics --- Statics --- Math --- Science --- Differentiable dynamical systems. --- Differential dynamical systems --- Dynamical systems, Differentiable --- Dynamics, Differentiable --- Differential equations --- Global analysis (Mathematics) --- Topological dynamics --- Fatou, Pierre, --- Académie des sciences (France) --- Académie des sciences de l'Institut de France --- France. --- Académie des sciences zu Paris --- Institut de France. --- Institut impérial de France. --- Institut national de France. --- French Academy of Science --- Academy of Sciences of the French Institute