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Lars Ahlfors
Lars Ahlfors
Born
(1907-04-18)18 April 1907
Helsinki, Finland
Died
11 October 1996(1996-10-11) (aged 89)
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality
Finnish
Alma mater
University of Helsinki
Known for
Analytic capacity Riemann surfaces Quasiconformal mappings Denjoy-Carleman-Ahlfors theorem Ahlfors finiteness theorem for Kleinian groups Ahlfors theory Conformal geometry Geometric function theory
Awards
Fields Medal (1936) Wihuri Prize (1968) Wolf Prize (1981) Leroy P. Steele Prize (1982)
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics
Institutions
University of Helsinki ETH Zurich Harvard University
Doctoral advisor
Ernst Lindelöf Rolf Nevanlinna
Doctoral students
Paul Garabedian Dale Husemoller James A. Jenkins Albert Marden Robert Osserman Henry Pollak Halsey Royden George Springer
Lars Valerian Ahlfors (18 April 1907 – 11 October 1996) was a Finnish mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his textbook on complex analysis.
Commons LarsAhlfors at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Ahlfors entry on Harvard University Mathematics department web site. Papers of Lars Valerian...
Synge. The medal was first awarded in 1936 to Finnish mathematician LarsAhlfors and American mathematician Jesse Douglas, and it has been awarded every...
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called the Ahlfors–Shimizu characteristic. The bounded term O(1) is not important in most questions. The geometric meaning of the Ahlfors—Shimizu characteristic...
of bounded analytic functions outside K. It was first introduced by LarsAhlfors in the 1940s while studying the removability of singularities of bounded...
the measurable Riemann mapping theorem is a theorem proved in 1960 by LarsAhlfors and Lipman Bers in complex analysis and geometric function theory. Contrary...
the first lecture by Paul Erdős. In other years, the speakers included LarsAhlfors, Robert Aumann, Lipman Bers, Enrico Bombieri, Charles Fefferman, Samuel...
2009. ISBN 9780230748101. "LarsAhlfors (1907-1996)". Harvard University. Retrieved 31 May 2018. "Lars Valerian Ahlfors". University of St Andrews. Retrieved...
most famous doctoral student was LarsAhlfors, one of the first two Fields Medal recipients. The research for which Ahlfors was awarded the prize (proving...
Ahlfors theory is a mathematical theory invented by LarsAhlfors as a geometric counterpart of the Nevanlinna theory. Ahlfors was awarded one of the two...
Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-61272-0. LCCN 64-60036. MR 0167642. LCCN 65-12253. LarsAhlfors, Complex Analysis: an introduction to the theory of analytic functions...
its professors, such as the Fields Medal received by the mathematician LarsAhlfors (1936), the Nobel Prize in Chemistry granted to Professor A.I. Virtanen...
engineer (student of ETH) Sarah Springman, faculty and rector (2015) LarsAhlfors, mathematician (Professor at the ETH) Armand Borel, mathematician, (student...
the Ahlfors conjecture for topologically tame groups, by showing that a topologically tame Kleinian group is geometrically tame, so the Ahlfors conjecture...
Canonical Conformal Maps of Multiply Connected Regions was advised by LarsAhlfors and Joseph Leonard Walsh. Landau later became Distinguished Member of...
group. The theorem was proved by LarsAhlfors (1964, 1965), apart from a gap that was filled by Greenberg (1967). The Ahlfors finiteness theorem states that...
Texts in Mathematics. New York: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-0387950600. Ahlfors, Lars Valerian (1979). Complex Analysis (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill....
analysis, probability theory, ergodic theory and dynamical systems. 1981 LarsAhlfors Finland for seminal discoveries and the creation of powerful new methods...
politician Aku Ahjolinna (born 1946), ballet dancer and choreographer LarsAhlfors (1907–1996), mathematician, Fields medalist Ella Eronen (1900–1987),...
Prize in 1981, and in the same year the Wolf Prize in Mathematics with LarsAhlfors. He wrote also Commutative Algebra in two volumes, with Pierre Samuel...
Halberg), Finnish-Kiowa-Comanche U.S. Attorney Arvo Mikkanen, mathematician LarsAhlfors, musicians Dave Mustaine, Jaco Pastorius, Einar Aaron Swan, Jorma Kaukonen...
received his Ph.D. in 1951 at Harvard University under the supervision of LarsAhlfors with thesis Harmonic functions on open Riemann surfaces. At Stanford...
spent the summer of 1939 in Finland with his wife Eveline, as guests of LarsAhlfors. Due to their travel near the border, the couple were suspected as Soviet...
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