Lars Ahlfors : at the summit of mathematics / Olli Lehto. Transl. by William Hellberg

By:

Lehto, Olli, 1925-2020 [aut]

Contributor(s):

Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Original language: Finnish Publisher: Providence, RI : American Mathematical Society, 2015Description: VIII, 125 S. : IllISBN:

9781470418465

Other title:

At the summit of mathematics

Uniform titles:

Tieteen huipulla. <engl.>

Contained works:

Lehto, Olli, 1925-2020. Tieteen huipulla. <engl.>

Subject(s):

MSC: MSC: *01-02 | 01A70 | 01A60 | 30-03LOC classification:

QA29.A34

Summary: This book tells the story of the Finnish-American mathematician Lars Ahlfors (1907-1996). He was educated at the University of Helsinki as a student of Ernst Lindelof and Rolf Nevanlinna and later became a professor there. He left Finland permanently in 1944 and was professor and emeritus at Harvard University for more than fifty years. At the age of twenty-one Ahlfors became a well-known mathematician having solved Denjoy's conjecture, and in 1936 he established his world renown when he was awarded the Fields Medal, the "Nobel Prize in mathematics". In this book the description of his mathematics avoids technical details and concentrates on his contributions to the general development of complex analysis. Besides mathematics there is also a lot to tell about Ahlfors. World War II marked his life, and he was a colorful personality, with many interesting stories about him. Olli Lehto, the author of the book, first met Lars Ahlfors and his family as a young doctor at Harvard in 1950. Numerous meetings after that in various parts of the world led to a close friendship between them.Summary: Biography of Finnish American mathematician, Lars Ahlfors (1907-1996)PPN: PPN: 819482617

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Freihandbestand ausleihbar	Fachbibliothek Mathematik	Bibliothek / frei aufgestellt	Gesch./Phil. / Leh	Available		36384669090

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