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Fatou

Fatou is primarily a feminine given name in West Africa, especially in Senegal and The Gambia. It is commonly a shortened form of Fatoumata or Fatima and has spread to other Francophone communities and diaspora populations. In some contexts Fatou is also used as a surname.

Notable people with the given name include Fatou Bensouda (born 1961), a Gambian lawyer who served as

In mathematics, Fatou refers to Pierre Fatou (1870–1929), a French mathematician who contributed important ideas to

Prosecutor
of
the
International
Criminal
Court;
Fatou
Diome
(born
1968),
a
Senegalese-French
writer
known
for
Le
Ventre
de
l’Atlantique
(The
Belly
of
the
Atlantic);
and
Fatoumata
Diawara
(born
1982),
a
Malian
singer
and
actress
whose
work
has
gained
international
attention.
The
name
appears
across
West
Africa
and
among
African
diaspora
communities
in
Europe
and
North
America.
complex
dynamics
and
probability.
Fatou’s
lemma
is
a
fundamental
result
in
probability
theory
about
exchanging
limit
infimum
with
expectation.
In
complex
dynamics,
the
Fatou
set
comprises
points
where
the
iterates
of
a
holomorphic
function
form
a
normal
family,
with
its
complement
known
as
the
Julia
set.
These
concepts
are
central
to
the
study
of
dynamical
systems
on
the
complex
plane.