Tan Lei
| Tan Lei 谭蕾 |
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Tan Lei in Oberwolfach, 2008
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| Born |
March 18, 1963 Pingxiang, Jiangxi |
| Died | April 1, 2016 (aged 53) |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Education |
Wuhan University (BA) University of Paris-Sud, Orsay (MA) University of Paris-Sud, Orsay (PhD) |
| Spouse(s) | Hans Henrik Rugh |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | www |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Thesis | Accouplements des polynômes quadratiques complexes (1986) |
| Doctoral advisor | Adrien Douady |
| Doctoral students | Peng Wenjuan (彭文娟) |
Tan Lei (Chinese: 谭蕾) 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.
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.
A conference in Tan's memory was held in Beijing, China, in May 2016.
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