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Lars Ahlfors — At the Summit of Mathematics
About this Title
Olli Lehto, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. Translated by William Hellberg
Publication: AMS Non-Series Monographs
Publication Year:
2015; Volume 92
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-1846-5 (print); 978-1-4704-2353-7 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/mbk/092
ReadershipTable of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- Family background
- Exceptional talent emerges
- Mathematical renown secured
- To America and back again
- War years in Finland
- In Sweden and Switzerland
- Professorship at Harvard University
- The legacy of Riemann and Teichmüller
- New research and return to the old
- Distinctions
- Additions to the portrait
- Epilogue in Finland