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Lars Ahlfors

1907 - 1996

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lars Ahlfors is the 147th most popular mathematician (down from 90th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Finland (down from 14th in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Lars Ahlfors ranks 147 out of 1,004. Before him are Henri Lebesgue, Ferdinand von Lindemann, Mikhail Ostrogradsky, John G. Kemeny, Gabriel Lamé, and George Pólya. After him are Joseph Liouville, John Tate, Georg von Peuerbach, Vincenzo Viviani, Marian Rejewski, and Andrey Markov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Lars Ahlfors ranks 52. Before him are Otto Ohlendorf, Sisavang Vatthana, Barbara Stanwyck, Pujie, Compay Segundo, and Henri-Georges Clouzot. After him are Varlam Shalamov, Zarah Leander, Takeo Wakabayashi, Burgess Meredith, Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, and Emilie Schindler. Among people deceased in 1996, Lars Ahlfors ranks 36. Before him are René Clément, Artur Axmann, Solomon Asch, Ademir de Menezes, Abdus Salam, and Claudette Colbert. After him are Andreas Papandreou, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Fujiko Fujio, Masaki Kobayashi, Marcel Carné, and António de Spínola.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Lars Ahlfors ranks 29 out of 751. Before him are Vissarion Belinsky (1811), Mauno Koivisto (1923), Arto Paasilinna (1942), Kyösti Kallio (1873), Helene Schjerfbeck (1862), and Linus Torvalds (1969). After him are Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg (1865), George Gaynes (1917), Otto Wille Kuusinen (1881), Mika Häkkinen (1968), Wäinö Aaltonen (1894), and Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Finland

Among mathematicians born in Finland, Lars Ahlfors ranks 1. After him are Rolf Nevanlinna (1895), Anders Johan Lexell (1740), Ernst Leonard Lindelöf (1870), and Hjalmar Mellin (1854).

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