Lars Ahlfors
Lars Valerian Ahlfors (18 April 1907 – 11 October 1996) was a Finnish mathematician known for his work in the field of complex analysis.
Lars Ahlfors | |
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 from Mathematisches Institut Oberwolfach | |
| Born | 18 April 1907 |
| Died | 11 October 1996 (aged 89) |
| Nationality | Finnish |
| Alma mater | University of Helsinki |
| Known for | Denjoy-Carleman-Ahlfors theorem Ahlfors finiteness theorem for Kleinian groups Ahlfors theory |
| Awards | Fields Medal (1936) Wihuri International Prize (1968) Wolf Prize (1981) Leroy P. Steele Prize (1982) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Helsinki ETH Zurich Harvard University |
| Doctoral students | Paul Garabedian Dale Husemoller Albert Marden Robert Osserman Henry O. Pollak Halsey Royde |
Bibliography
- Complex Analysis: an Introduction to the Theory of Analytic Functions of One Complex Variable (1953,[1] 1966, 1979) (ISBN 0-07-000657-1)
- Contributions to the Theory of Riemann Surfaces: Annals of Mathematics Studies (1953) (ISBN 0-691-07939-0) (co-author and co-editor)
- Ahlfors, Lars. Fundamental Polyhedrons and Limit Point Sets of Kleinian Groups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 55 (2) (February 1966). p. 251–254. doi:10.1073/pnas.55.2.251.
Other websites
- Lars Ahlfors at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Ahlfors entry on Harvard University Mathematics department web site.
- Papers of Lars Valerian Ahlfors : an inventory (Harvard University Archives)
- Lars Valerian Ahlfors The MacTutor History of Mathematics page about Ahlfors
- The Mathematics of Lars Valerian Ahlfors Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine, Notices of the American Mathematical Society; vol. 45, no. 2 (February 1998).
- Lars Valerian Ahlfors (1907–1996) Archived 2016-06-03 at the Wayback Machine, Notices of the American Mathematical Society; vol. 45, no. 2 (February 1998).
- Frederick Gehring. Lars Valerian Ahlfors: a biographical memoir. Biographical Memoirs 87 (2005). Retrieved 2020-04-20.
- National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir
- Author profile in the database Zentralblatt_MATH
References
- ↑ Schaeffer, A. C.. Review: Complex analysis. By Lars V. Ahlfors. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (5) (1953). p. 464–467. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1953-09722-1. Retrieved 2020-04-20.