Lars Ahlfors

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Lars Ahlfors" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Lars Ahlfors
Lars Ahlfors
Born	(1907-04-18)18 April 1907 Helsinki, Finland
Died	11 October 1996(1996-10-11) (aged 89) Pittsfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality	Finnish
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)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	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

Lars Valerian Ahlfors (18 April 1907 – 11 October 1996) was a Finnish mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his textbook on complex analysis.