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Lars Ahlfors
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Finnish mathematician (1907-1996)
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Lars Valerian Ahlfors was a Finnish-American mathematician and university teacher whose work focused on mathematical analysis, mathematics, and complex analysis. Born in Helsinki on April 18, 1907, he held citizenship in the Russian Empire, Finland, the United States, and the Grand Duchy of Finland. He received his education at the University of Helsinki, University of Zurich, and University of Paris, with doctoral advisors Ernst Leonard Lindelöf and Rolf Nevanlinna. Ahlfors served as a professor at Harvard University, the University of Zurich, and the University of Helsinki.
His notable works include *Riemann surfaces*, *Lectures on quasiconformal mapping*, *Möbius transformations in several dimensions*, and *Advances in the Theory of Riemann Surfaces*. Ahlfors 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. He received the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, the Fields medal, the Leroy P. Steele Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He died in Pittsfield on October 11, 1996, from pneumonia.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 18 April 1907
- Died
- 11 October 1996
- Works
- 29
Top works
- Riemann surfaces
- Lectures on quasiconformal mapping
- Möbius transformations in several dimensions
- Advances in the Theory of Riemann Surfaces. (Am-66)
- Lectures on quasiconformal mappings
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Effect of the damping function in dispersion corrected density functional theory
· 2011 · cited 26,547x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,776x
- ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates
· 2017 · cited 17,229x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,955x
- STRING v11: protein–protein association networks with increased coverage, supporting functional discovery in genome-wide experimental datasets
· 2018 · cited 15,630x
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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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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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