[meteorite-list] OT: Answer to the Google challenge

From: martinh_at_isu.edu <martinh_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:31:20 2004
Message-ID: <2250621897.2189722506_at_isu.edu>

The answer to the google=2Ecom google doodle for Feb 3rd is at the bottom=
 of this email=2E

----- Original Message -----
From=3A =22Matson=2C Robert=22 =3CROBERT=2ED=2EMATSON=40saic=2Ecom=3E
Date=3A Tuesday=2C February 3=2C 2004 0=3A01 am
Subject=3A =5Bmeteorite-list=5D OT=3A Google challenge

=3E Hi All=2C
=3E =

=3E If you haven=27t already=2C check out the Google home page for today
=3E (February 3rd)=2C and see if you can figure out the significance=2E
=3E Even cheating with a Google search=2C it may take you a while to
=3E discover the meaning=2E
=3E =

=3E --Rob
=3E =



Answer=3A


Gaston Maurice Julia=2E Born 3 Feb 1893 in Sidi Bel Abb=C3=A8s=2C Algeria=
 Died 19 March1978 in Paris=2C France=2E Click the picture above to see f=
ive larger pictures =A0
http=3A//www-gap=2Edcs=2Est-and=2Eac=2Euk/=7Ehistory/Mathematicians/Julia=
=2Ehtml =

Extractions=3A When only 25 when Gaston Julia published his 199 page mast=
erpiece which made him famous in the mathematics centres of his days=2E A=
s a soldier in the First World War=2C Julia had been severely wounded in =
an attack on the French front design
ed to celebrate the Kaiser=27s birthday=2E Many on both sides were wounde=
d including Julia who lost his nose and had to wear a leather strap acros=
s his face for the rest of his life=2E Between several painful operations=
 he carried on his mathematical researches in hospital=2E Later he became=
 a distinguished professor at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris=2E In 1918=
 Julia published a beautiful paper (1918)=2C 47-245=2C concerning the ite=
ration of a rational function f =2E Julia gave a precise description of t=
he set J(f) of those z in C for which the n th iterate f n z ) stays boun=
ded as n Seminars were organised in Berlin in 1925 to study his work and =
participants included Brauer Hopf and Reidemeister =2E H Cremer produced =
an essay on his work which included the first visualisation of a Julia se=
t=2E
Received on Tue 03 Feb 2004 09:00:49 AM PST