Mathematician:Lars Valerian Ahlfors
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Mathematician
Finnish mathematician noted for his work in analysis.
Fields Medal
Lars Valerian Ahlfors was awarded a Fields Medal in $\text {1936}$ at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Oslo:
- 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.
Wolf Prize
Lars Valerian Ahlfors was awarded a Wolf Prize for Mathematics in $\text {1981}$:
- For seminal discoveries and the creation of powerful new methods in geometric function theory.
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 Karl Hermann Amandus Schwarz and Georg Alexander Pick)
- Denjoy-Carleman-Ahlfors Theorem (with Tage Gills Torsten Carleman and Arnaud Denjoy)
Results named for Lars Valerian Ahlfors can be found here.
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