2015;
125 pp;
Softcover
MSC: Primary 01;
Print ISBN: 978-1-4704-1846-5
Product Code: MBK/92
List Price: $39.00
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MAA Member Price: $35.10
Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4704-2353-7
Product Code: MBK/92.E
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Lars Ahlfors — At the Summit of Mathematics
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Readership
Undergraduate and graduate students and research mathematicians interested in the history of mathematics.
Reviews & Endorsements
Olli Lehto has given us a first-rate biography, running from a brief review of Ahlfors' ancestry through to his centennial celebration. Lehto has succeeded in avoiding the twin pitfalls of so much information as to risk being tedious, or so much brevity as to leave the reader with nothing to work with. Instead we are given enough insight to feel that we have got to know Ahlfors as a person, and some notion of the mathematics he created. ...In reading this book, I came to like Ahlfors as a person, to admire his mathematics even more than previously, and was prompted to go off and read more of his works. I can offer no better recommendation.
-- David Sixsmith, London Mathematical Society
Ahlfors was a living legend, and although he was known to outsiders, i.e. non analysts, primarily through the effect of his [classic text on complex analysis], there was, and is, a lot more to be told about his fascinating life. We now have a compact, readable, and mathematically meaningful biography by Olli Lehto, another Finn, another analyst, another member of Nevanlinna's circle, and a very close friend of Ahlfors. It doesn't get any better than that.
-- MAA Online
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Lars Ahlfors -- At the Summit of Mathematics
- Cover Cover11
- Front photo ii3
- Title page iii4
- Contents v6
- Preface to the English edition vii8
- Family background 110
- Exceptional talent emerges 918
- Mathematical renown secured 2130
- To America and back again 3140
- War years in Finland 4150
- In Sweden and Switzerland 5160
- Professorship at Harvard University 5968
- The legacy of Riemann and Teichmüller 7180
- New research and return to the old 8392
- Distinctions 91100
- Additions to the portrait 103112
- Epilogue in Finland 111120
- Sources 119128
- Index 123132
- Back Cover Back Cover1135