Mathematician:Lars Valerian Ahlfors

Finnish mathematician noted for his work in analysis.

Nationality
Finnish

History

 * Born: 18 April 1907, Helsingfors, Finland, Russian Empire (now Helsinki, Finland)
 * Died: 11 Oct 1996, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA

Theorems and Definitions

 * Schwarz-Ahlfors-Pick Theorem (with Hermann Amandus Schwarz and Georg Alexander Pick)

Books and Papers

 * 1953: Contributions to the Theory of Riemann Surfaces: Annals of Mathematics Studies (ISBN 0-691-07939-0)
 * 1953: Complex Analysis (reprinted 1979) (ISBN 0-07-000657-1)
 * 1960: Riemann surfaces (with L Sario)
 * 1966: Fundamental Polyhedrons and Limit Point Sets of Kleinian Groups
 * 1966: Lectures on quasi-conformal mappings
 * 1973: Conformal Invariants: Topics in Geometric Function Theory