Mathematician:Lars Valerian Ahlfors

Mathematician

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)
• Denjoy-Carleman-Ahlfors Theorem (with Tage Gills Torsten Carleman and Arnaud Denjoy)

Publications

• 1937: Über die Blochsche Konstante (Math. Z. Vol. 42: pp. 671 – 673) (with Helmut Grunsky)
• 1953: Contributions to the Theory of Riemann Surfaces: Annals of Mathematics Studies (ISBN 0-691-07939-0)

• 1953: Complex Analysis
  • 1966: Complex Analysis, 2nd ed.
  • 1979: Complex Analysis, 3rd ed.

• 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

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Lars Valerian Ahlfors": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive