Lars Ahlfors: At the Summit of Mathematics

by Olli Lehto

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. Already at the age of twenty-one Ahlfors became a well-known mathematician having solved Denjoy's conjecture, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1470418460
• ISBN13: 9781470418465
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: American Mathematical Society
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.5" x 6.8"