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Lars Valerian Ahlfors, William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics, died of pneumonia on Oct. 11 in Pittsfield, Mass., at the age of 89.
Ahlfors was born in Helsinki, Finland, in 1907.
Ahlfors is survived by his wife, Erna, who lives in Nassau, N.Y.; three daughters, Cynthia Edwards of Jumeauville, France, Vanessa Gruen of Darien, Conn., and Old Chatham, N.Y., and Caroline Mouris of Nassau, N.Y.; a brother, Axel Ahlfors of Torup, Sweden; a sister, Unga Appelqvist of Helsinki; grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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 Finnish Mathematicians
Ahlfors was born in April 1907 in Helsinki, Finland.
Ahlfors entered the University of Helsinki in 1924, where he was taught by Lindelöf and Nevanlinna.
Ahlfors' family had to be evacuated to Sweden so when he was proposed a post in Zurich he considered it as a good opportunity to reunite his family.
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 Lars Ahlfors -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ahlfors was appointed lecturer in mathematics at the (Click link for more info and facts about Åbo Akademi) Åbo Akademi (in (Click link for more info and facts about Turku) Turku).
In 1935 he went to (A university in Massachusetts) Harvard University and in 1936 he was one of the first two people to be awarded the (Click link for more info and facts about Fields Medal) Fields Medal.
Ahlfors wrote several other significant books, including Riemann surfaces (1960) and Conformal invariants (1973).
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Lars Ahlfors' father was professor of mechanical engineering at the Polytechnic Institute in Helsingfors.
Ahlfors entered Helsingfors University in 1924, and there he was taught by Lindelöf and Nevanlinna.
Ahlfors' family was evacuated to Sweden during the war and so, when he was offered a chair in Zurich in 1944 it seemed a good chance to be reunited with his family.
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 Lars V. Ahlfors Biography / Biography of Lars V. Ahlfors World of Mathematics Biography
Ahlfors received this award for his work on Riemann surfaces, which are schematic devices for mapping the relation between complex numbers according to an analytic function.
Ahlfors was named a fellow of the Rockefeller Institute in 1932, which allowed him to live and do research in Paris for a year.
Ahlfors was attending the ceremony in Oslo, but he learned only hours before it began that he had been chosen as the recipient.
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 Encyclopaedia Britannica entry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ahlfors received his Ph.D. from the University of Helsinki in 1932.
Ahlfors was awarded the Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Oslo, Nor., in 1936.
His principal contributions were in the theory of Riemann surfaces, but his theorems (the Ahlfors finiteness theorem, the Ahlfors five-disk theorem, the Ahlfors principal theorem, etc.) touch on other areas as well, such as the theory of finitely generated Kleinian groups.
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LARS V. AHLFORS, mathematician who won first Fields Medal; 89 by Tom Long GLOBE STAFF Lars Valerian Ahlfors, a former Harvard mathematician and the first recient of the Fields Medal in mathematics, died of pneumonia Friday in Pittsfield, where he lived in retirement.
Ahlfors published a text on the subject in 1953 that is still in wide use today.
In 1936 he won the first Fields Medal, which is awarded every four years by the International Mathematics Society and is considered by many to be the mathematical equivalent of a Nobel Prize.
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Lars Valerian Ahlfors (April 18, 1907 – October 11, 1996) was a Finnish mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his text on complex analysis.
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 Valerian --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
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Elected emperor by his soldiers (253), Valerian renewed the persecution of the Christians and executed Pope Sixtus II in 258.
After appointing his son Publius Licinius Gallienus to rule the western part of the empire, he marched east to repel the Persian invasion.
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 Encyclopedia: Lars Ahlfors
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Past winners of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics: 1978 Israel M. Gelfand, Carl L. Siegel 1979 Jean Leray, André Weil 1980 Henri Cartan, Andrei Kolmogorov 1981 Lars Ahlfors, Oscar Zariski 1982 Hassler Whitney, Mark Grigoryevich Krein 1983/4 Shiing S. Chern, Paul Erdős 1984/5 Kunihiko Kodaira, Hans...
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 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Lars Ahlfors
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 Other Writings of Steven G. Krantz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Krantz (ed.), and a group of contributors, Lars Valerian Ahlfors,
Krantz (ed.), and a group of contributors, The Mathematics of Lars
Valerian Ahlfors, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 1998.
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 Fields Medal Winners
The Fields Medal has been awarded quadrennially since 1936 by the International Congress of Mathematicians in Toronto to recognize outstanding mathematics achievement.
Lars Valerian Ahlfors (Harvard University) and Jesse Douglas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Lars V. Hörmander (University of Stockholm) and John Willard Milnor (Princeton University)
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