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Lars Valerian Ahlfors


Born
in Helsinki, Finland
April 18, 1907

Died
October 11, 1996


Lars Valerian Ahlfors, William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics, died of pneumonia on Oct. 11 in Pittsfield, Mass., at the age of 89. Ahlfors won the first Fields Medal awarded by the International Mathematics Society in 1936, a quadrennial award considered equivalent, in mathematics, to the Nobel Prize. In 1979, he was awarded the prestigious Wolf Prize in Jerusalem. Ahlfors was best known for his work in complex analysis, a fundamental subject with many applications from number theory to modern physics. His textbook, Complex Analysis, first published in 1953, with new editions in 1966 and 1979, is still considered the leading text in the field. He wrote three other mathematical books and published almost 100 papers. Colleagues an ...more

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Complex Analysis: An Introd...

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Lectures on Quasiconformal ...

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Conformal Invariants: Topic...

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Lars Valerian Ahlfors: Coll...

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Contributions to the Theory...

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Riemann Surfaces: (PMS-26) ...

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Analytic Functions

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Advances in the Theory of R...

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Collected Papers Vol 1-2

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