What is Lars Ahlfors?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Lars Ahlfors | image = Lars Ahlfors - MFO.jpg |caption = from Mathematisches Institut Oberwolfach |birth_date = {{birth date|1907|04|18|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Helsinki]], [[Finland]] |death_date = {{death date and age|1996|10|11|1907|04|18|df=y}} |death_place = [[Pittsfield, Massachusetts]], U.S. |nationality = Finnish |field = [[Mathematics]] |work_institutions = University of Helsinki<br>[[ETH Zurich]]<br>[[Harvard University]] |alma_mater = University of Helsinki |doctoral_advisor = Ernst Lindelöf<br>Rolf Nevanlinna |doctoral_students = Paul Garabedian<br>Dale Husemoller<br>Albert Marden<br>Robert Osserman<br>Henry O. Pollak<br>Halsey Royde |known_for = Denjoy-Carleman-Ahlfors theorem<br>Ahlfors finiteness theorem for Kleinian groups<br> Ahlfors theory |influences = |influenced = |prizes = [[Fields Medal]] (1936)<br>Wihuri International Prize (1968)<br>[[Wolf Prize]] (1981)<br>Leroy P. Steele Prize (1982) }} '''Lars Valerian Ahlfors''' (18 April 1907 – 11 October 1996) was a Finnish [[mathematician]] known for his work in the field of [[complex analysis]]. ==Bibliography== * ''Complex Analysis: an Introduction to the Theory of Analytic Functions of One Complex Variable'' (1953,<ref>{{cite journal|author=Schaeffer, A. C.|title=Review: ''Complex analysis''. By Lars V. Ahlfors|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.|year=1953|volume=59|issue=5|pages=464–467|url=http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1953-59-05/S0002-9904-1953-09722-1/S0002-9904-1953-09722-1.pdf|doi=10.1090/S0002-9904-1953-09722-1}}</ref> 1966, 1979) ({{ISBN|0-07-000657-1}}) * ''Contributions to the Theory of Riemann Surfaces: Annals of Mathematics Studies'' (1953) ({{ISBN|0-691-07939-0}}) (co-author and co-editor) *{{cite journal | last=Ahlfors | first=Lars | journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | volume=55 | issue=2 | pages=251–254 |date=February 1966 | pmid=16591331 | doi=10.1073/pnas.55.2.251 | pmc=224131| titl