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Lars Ahlfors
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Finnish mathematician (1907-1996)
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Lars Valerian Ahlfors was a male mathematician and university teacher specializing in mathematical analysis, mathematics, and complex analysis. Born in Helsinki in 1907, he was a member of the Finland Swedes ethnic group and spoke Swedish and English. He held citizenship in the Russian Empire, Finland, the United States, and the Grand Duchy of Finland. Ahlfors was educated at the University of Helsinki, the University of Zurich, and the University of Paris. His doctoral advisors were Ernst Leonard Lindelöf and Rolf Nevanlinna.
He served as a teacher at Harvard University, the University of Zurich, and the University of Helsinki. Ahlfors received the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, the Fields medal, the Leroy P. Steele Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences. His doctoral students included Robert Osserman, Henry Landau, and Paul Garabedian. He died of pneumonia in Pittsfield in 1996 and is buried at Hietaniemi cemetery.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1907-04-18 ) 18 April 1907, Helsinki , Finland
- Died
- 11 October 1996 (1996-10-11) (aged 89), Pittsfield, Massachusetts , U.S.
- 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)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- Åbo Akademi , 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
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lars
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Grand Duchy of Finland
- Place of birth
- Helsinki
- Place of death
- Pittsfield
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Paris
- Employer
- Harvard University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Swedish
- Doctoral advisor
- Ernst Leonard Lindelöf
- Doctoral student
- Paul Garabedian
- Image
- Lars Ahlfors - MFO.jpg
- Work location
- Zurich
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- date of birth
- 1907-04-18
- date of death
- 1996-10-01
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- Commons category
- Lars Ahlfors
- Erdős number
- 4
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- ethnic group
- Finland Swedes
- place of burial
- Hietaniemi cemetery
- birth name
- Lars Valerian Ahlfors
- manner of death
- natural causes
- archives at
- Harvard Library
- name in native language
- Lars Ahlfors
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Lars Valerian Ahlfors (18 April 1907 – 11 October 1996) was a Finnish mathematician and the leading figure in complex analysis during the 20th century. He is remembered for his work on Riemann surfaces, quasiconformal mappings and Teichmüller spaces, and for his textbook on complex analysis. In 1936 Ahlfors was one of the first two recipients of the Fields Medal, along with American mathematician Jesse Douglas, and in 1981 he received the Wolf Prize in Mathematics.
Biography
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