라르스 알포르스

소개

라르스 발레리안 알포르스(스웨덴어: Lars Valerian Ahlfors, 1907년 4월 18일 - 1996년 10월 11일)는 핀란드의 수학자로서, 주된 연구 분야는 리만 곡면과 복소 해석학이었다.

Lars Valerian Ahlfors was a Finnish mathematician and the leading figure in complex analysis during the 20th century. He is remembered for his work on Riemann surfaces, quasiconformal mappings and Teichmüller spaces, and for his textbook on complex analysis. In 1936 Ahlfors was one of the first two recipients of the Fields Medal, along with American mathematician Jesse Douglas, and in 1981 he received the Wolf Prize in Mathematics.