Definition:Fields Medal/Recipients/1936
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Recipients of the Fields Medal
The recipients of the Fields Medal in $1936$ were as follows:
| Recipient(s) | Citation |
|---|---|
| Lars Valerian Ahlfors | Awarded medal for research on covering surfaces related to Riemann surfaces of inverse functions of entire and meromorphic functions. Opened up new fields of analysis. |
| Jesse Douglas | Did important work on the Plateau problem which is concerned with finding minimal surfaces connecting and determined by some fixed boundary. |
Location of conference: Oslo, Norway
Sources
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Appendix $17$: Fields Medal winners
- 2021: Richard Earl and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (6th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Appendix $22$: Fields Medal winners