Léopold Leau | |
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Born | 1868 |
Died | 1943 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Léopold Leau (1868-1943) was a French mathematician, [1] primarily known for his ties to international auxiliary languages.
The Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language was founded on 7 January 1901 on Leau's initiative. [2] He co-wrote with Prof. Louis Couturat the monumental Histoire de la Langue Universelle (1903) [3] and its supplement Les Nouvelles Langues Internationales (1907). [4]
Leau studied at the École normal supérieure in Paris and received his doctorate there in April 1897. [5] Later he was a professor at the University of Nancy . There he was Dean of the Faculté des Sciences from 1931–34. In his dissertation, Leau examined, among other things, the iteration behavior of holomorphic functions in the environment of a rationally indifferent fixed point. His results are known today under the name (Leau- Fatou) Flower Theorem . They play an important role in the complex dynamics.
Léopold Leau | |
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Born | 1868 |
Died | 1943 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Léopold Leau (1868-1943) was a French mathematician, [1] primarily known for his ties to international auxiliary languages.
The Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language was founded on 7 January 1901 on Leau's initiative. [2] He co-wrote with Prof. Louis Couturat the monumental Histoire de la Langue Universelle (1903) [3] and its supplement Les Nouvelles Langues Internationales (1907). [4]
Leau studied at the École normal supérieure in Paris and received his doctorate there in April 1897. [5] Later he was a professor at the University of Nancy . There he was Dean of the Faculté des Sciences from 1931–34. In his dissertation, Leau examined, among other things, the iteration behavior of holomorphic functions in the environment of a rationally indifferent fixed point. His results are known today under the name (Leau- Fatou) Flower Theorem . They play an important role in the complex dynamics.